There are a bunch of different acting techniques, but only one has become a persistent hot topic for its sheer extremity. In method acting, a performer loses themself in a character, fully embodying ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

In the 126 years since David Hilbert presented his famous 23 problems, mathematicians have made tremendous advancements. Sean McCabe for Simons Foundation; Portrait of David Hilbert by L. Reidemeister ...

Many enterprise cybersecurity conversations still focus primarily on prevention technologies. While these controls remain critically important, CISOs today recognize that one of the most effective ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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 ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

A receptionist at a doctor's office announces new privacy laws to patients in the waiting room. "Starting today," she says, "patients won't be called by their names to protect their identity." The ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

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 ...