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Monkeys are surprisingly good at geometry
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (343+ words) Published Jul 20, 2026 3:00 PM EDT “What surprised us wasn’t just that monkeys could do the task. It was that monkeys, children and adults seemed to think about geometric relationships in fundamentally the same way,” Jessica Cantlon, a study co-author, a cognitive…...
Basketball can make you better at math
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (276+ words) Published Jun 10, 2026 4:15 PM EDT Fractions are a difficult math concept for many children to learn, but pairing lessons with basketball may offer some help. After participating in an experimental workshop that combined education with shooting hoops, students in Denmark performed…...
Why we (probably) aren't living in a computer simulation
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (726+ words) Published Nov 4, 2025 11:24 AM EST The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction thought experiment. Physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, and college dorm roommates have argued over the scenario’s feasibility since the…...
Texas Instruments’ newest calculator is intentionally dumb
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (208+ words) Published Apr 29, 2026 3:23 PM EDT That’s likely welcome news to educators around the country battling a growing attention crisis in classrooms some attribute to constantly nagging smart electronic devices. “As schools nationwide ban cell phones, parents sue social platforms for addictive…...
Can you best a math Olympiad? Test your skills with the world’s largest database of problems.
3+ mon, 10+ hour ago (256+ words) Published Apr 20, 2026 5:00 PM EDT “Every country brings a booklet of its most novel and most creative problems,” explained Shaden Alshammari, a mathematician at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). “They share the booklets with each other, but no…...
Humans can still beat AI at video games
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (361+ words) Published Apr 4, 2026 11:19 AM EDT “If you pit an LLM [large language model] against a game it has not seen before, the result is almost certain failure,” the authors write. How video game tech, AI, and computer vision help decode animal…...
Human outsmarts Google DeepMind AI, solving centuries-old ‘kissing problem’
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (454+ words) Published Oct 23, 2025 11:00 AM EDT A human has outkissed one of Google’s superpowered artificial intelligence systems. The achievement isn’t in the realm of romance, however. Instead, this win is in the intellectual realm of advanced mathematics. While largely conceptual in nature,…...
Human teens beat AI at an international math competition
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (259+ words) Published Jul 22, 2025 11:59 AM EDT For the first time ever, AI models achieved prestigious gold-level scores at the International Mathematics Olympiad, one of the world’s premiere math competitions. Their success is an undeniable bragging right for the technology’s biggest supporters. But…...