One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

To answer that, we need to distinguish between cognitive tasks and institutional functions. AI systems in this future can replicate cognitive outputs (analysis, synthesis, prose, code) with increasing ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal ...