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Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

In late May 2026, a rumor spread online that a video captured the moment U.S. President Donald Trump soiled his pants while staring at the White House columns. While the video is authentic and shows ...

A legendary maths riddle finally has an answer. OpenAI says one of its general-purpose AI models has autonomously solved a famous problem first posed in 1946, with external mathematicians checking the ...

A “deeply flawed comparison” shapes how the state allocates its higher education dollars. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in above ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For ...

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In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

👉 Learn how to prove that two triangles are congruent. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many postulates and theorems to determine whether ...