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Gifted 10-Year-Old Brazilian Boy Discovers Unique Number Cycle, Earns Spot at Brazilian Mathematical Society Biennial
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (1064+ words) A mathematical research created by Marcel Augusto Calassa Alc'ntara, a 10-year-old boy, was approved for presentation at the XII Mathematics Biennial of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. The study was born after the student observed a cycle between the numbers 13 and…...
12-Year-Old Math Prodigy from Brazil Wins Two Gold Medals and Aims for Elite IMPA Tech
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (829+ words) rsula Rom'o, a 12-year-old student from the municipal network of Coruripe, in the interior of Alagoas, won her second gold medal in the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools, a result that placed her among young talents in Brazilian basic…...
China has an ambitious plan to invest $295 billion in artificial intelligence, but one detail of the strategy to dominate the sector could change the balance of the global technological race.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1106+ words) China is preparing a plan of about 2 trillion yuan, equivalent to US$ 295 billion, to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next five years, according to a Bloomberg News report cited by Reuters on Tuesday (09). The proposal includes the construction…...
AI may be close to discovering new laws of physics, but scientists have found a frightening error: the technology reduces expensive simulations by more than 10 times and yet may overlook unprecedented clues hidden in the universe.
2+ week, 2+ day ago (699+ words) Artificial intelligence can accelerate the search for new laws of physics by reducing the use of expensive cosmological simulations by more than ten times, but the gain comes with a risk: relying too much on already learned patterns. The research…...
AWS has opened more than 900 free courses for those who want to learn about cloud and artificial intelligence from home, with digital training created by the teams that develop Amazon's services.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (797+ words) One of the strongest points of AWS Skill Builder is the breadth of content. According to AWS, the courses cover all skill levels, from beginners who have never had contact with cloud computing to professionals who want to deepen their…...
Open AI's AI solves a mathematical problem that spanned decades, surprises experts, and raises a frightening question: have machines already started making scientific discoveries on their own?
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (969+ words) The case gained attention because it is not just about a machine assisting human researchers. The model is said to have produced original mathematical ideas, sparking an explosive discussion about how far autonomous artificial intelligence can go when it ceases…...
An 11-year-old girl from Minas Gerais finds a simpler way to calculate square roots, using only basic operations, and transforms a calculation feared by many students into an example of mathematical creativity both inside and outside school in Brazil on social media.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1386+ words) The square root, a calculation that often frightens many students at school, gained an alternative path created by J'lia Pimentel Ferreira, an 11-year-old student from Minas Gerais. The story resurfaced in 2026 on social media, but previous records show that the…...
It took us 30 years to confirm 6, 000 exoplanets, but a single project using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has already found over 10, 000 candidates in just one year by analyzing 83 million stars with artificial intelligence.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (882+ words) The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was launched in 2018 to dramatically expand the search for exoplanets. Scientists create a water-based battery with ingredients from tofu brine, make the system withstand 120, 000 cycles, and spark expectation for storing clean energy for much longer....
Chinese artificial intelligence that independently solved in 80 hours an open mathematical problem posed 12 years ago by American Dan Anderson " and proved its own result
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (614+ words) An artificial intelligence framework developed at Peking University independently solved an open problem in commutative algebra, proposed more than a decade ago by American mathematician Dan Anderson, in just 80 hours. According to a report by the South China Morning Post,…...
A Brazilian teenager created an artificial intelligence to map heat islands and help cool down cities that are becoming open-air ovens under increasingly extreme temperatures.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1386+ words) With 18 levels carved into the rock and a capacity for 20, 000 people, Turkey's gigantic underground city was a complete refuge with churches, schools, water, and ventilation, created to keep an entire population hidden and protected. A pizza owner discovers a fake…...