3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (733+ words) Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathematics AI tools are helping to decipher long-standing…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (296+ words) Researchers risk fire, explosion or poisoning by allowing AI to design experiments, warn scientists. Some 19 different AI models were tested on hundreds of questions to assess their ability to spot and avoid hazards and none recognised all issues " with some…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (92+ words) Published 14 January 2026 From Dave Holtum, Bath, UK Tim Rafferty's claim that simulators would only have to "simulate our ability to observe the universe" is often called lazy evaluation, but it faces a number of hurdles (Letters, 3 January). Objects cannot simply…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (214+ words) Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ancient Greeks to the most famous modern philosophers. Maths columnist Jacob Aron tells the story of how a CIA analyst finally cracked…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (280+ words) Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum objects that are otherwise fundamentally hard to access Quantum computers could benefit from a path around the Heisenberg uncertainty principle The Heisenberg uncertainty…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (144+ words) The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students In a sunlit amphitheatre, a student writes on a blackboardPiero Castellano In 2007, Ali Nesin set out to solve a mathematics problem…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (528+ words) Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and in 2025 we came a step closer to finding it When numbers get large, things get weirdJezper / Alamy In 2025, the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (101+ words) Mathematicians have discovered a new infinity, one that is so strange that it could change how we understand logic, numbers and even the universe itself ... Mathematicians have just discovered a new infinity, one that doesn't follow any of the rules…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (435+ words) AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution AI can help mathematicians tackle a range of problemsAndresr/ Getty…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (448+ words) Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based on a network of reactions can perform multiple tasks without having to be reconfigured Molecules can be used…...