In 1996, Dor, Halperin, and Zwick introduced an influential method that delivered a “2-approximation” in nearly optimal time.

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI tools like ChatGPT have made it more tempting than ever for students to cheat on assignments. Steve Hanke, a veteran Johns ...

Cannabis is becoming a bigger part of American life—and for a growing share of users, a problem. A new study in JAMA Psychiatry finds nearly 1 in 10 US men and about 6% of women met criteria for ...

A growing number of Americans say their cannabis use is problematic, according to a large new study released Wednesday. The study, based on nationally representative data of U.S. adults, found that ...

One of the core tenets of productivity is to do more with less. But the opposite holds true, too — which a sneaky, pernicious trend permeating the laptop market might reveal. Microprocessor vendors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees ...

This paper redefines dynamic multimodal fusion as a "per-sample optimization problem that directly minimizes conflict risk." It designs a differentiable modality ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Major surprise in Microsoft Vs Google stakes. Microsoft has started 2026 with a surprise for users. Chrome downloads are being hit by the Windows maker’s latest update. But that’s not the surprise. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...