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A 58-year-old lecturer who had published no original work in 12 years, and who had spent years keeping the books at a friend's Subway sandwich shop, mailed a paper to the Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013. Just over a month later it was accepted: pairs of consecutive primes less than 70 million apart occur infinitely often.
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (342+ words) An obscure adjunct, working at a Subway while publishing nothing, solved a centuries-old problem that had defeated the world's elite mathematicians. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit By the time he submitted, he had published no…...
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years — when two economists finally found the originals, the famous result was not in them
2+ week, 1+ day ago (190+ words) A foundational principle of modern management rests on factory data that was never actually verified—until economists finally checked the archives and found something entirely different. By The Long View Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit That idea, that people alter…...
A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in a fresh sample it was right only 29 percent of the time, which is the trouble with rules like these
3+ week, 6+ day ago (887+ words) A breakthrough divorce prediction model lost its power in the real world, revealing how statistical success in the lab can mask failure where it counts. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit The…...
Most people think a goldfish forgets everything within seconds, which helps make the little bowl seem humane — but that is a myth: goldfish can remember for months, push levers and tell colours apart
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (663+ words) The three-second memory myth lets us ignore what goldfish actually experience: boredom, frustration, and the slow wear of confinement. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Nothing to remember, nothing to miss, no boredom piling up. One possible reason the…...
Korean Database Rebuild Aims to Cure AI's Habit of Making Things Up
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (143+ words) Ask an AI assistant what a new beekeeper needs to know, and it will happily oblige. Handle the hive bodies, watch for swarming, learn the rhythms of the...
The Year Astronomers Thought Dark Energy Might Disappear
3+ mon, 3+ hour ago (315+ words) Stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, via the Spitzer Space telescope - credit NASA, JPL-Caltech, S Stolovy (SSCCaltech). It did not. A new study led by the University of Southampton has gone back over the same data and…...
The Neural Network That Was Taught Physics Before It Saw Any Data
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (48+ words) A month. That is roughly how long Viktor Lilja used to wait just to teach a computer enough about light to be useful. Not the calculation itself, mind...
A One-Atom Shuffle Reveals Hidden Cancer-Drug Pocket That AI Couldn't Find
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (54+ words) Two molecules sat side by side on the chemists' screen, near-identical twins. The same scaffold, the same atoms, the same everything, save for a single...
When the Teacher Enjoys the Lesson, the Whole Class Does Better at Math
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (134+ words) The lesson was the same in every classroom: quadratic equations, that gateway topic where the x suddenly comes with a square attached and a good many...
An AI Trained on Fake Genomes Can Read the Geneology Written in Real Ones
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (89+ words) That model is called cxt, and it represents something genuinely new in population genetics: the first language model designed not to predict text, but to predict time. Specifically, the moment at which any two stretches of DNA last shared a…...