1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1039+ words) Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart. An MIT Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1096+ words) Four young mathematicians awarded the 2026 Fields Medals The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings The mathematician Hong Wang is one of four recipients…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (420+ words) In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math helps all the characters return to their original bodies By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas In the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (436+ words) A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution By Sam Macdonald edited by Joseph Howlett & Lee Billings Bradač’s work looked at Ramsey numbers, which tell mathematicians exactly how large a graph can…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (455+ words) What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings OpenAI just used its new large language model GPT-5.6 Sol to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (254+ words) The signature of Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-Chested Fox,” was found inscribed in a 1,000-year-old chamber beneath present-day Guatemala By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings The math world just got a new genius—a prodigy who announced himself by…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (321+ words) A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations By Jack Murtagh edited by Jeanna Bryner In this simple example, let’s calculate 12 × 34. First, we split both numbers into their tens and ones digits. Assign a = 1 and…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (964+ words) Is AI on the precipice of revolutionizing math? It depends LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test By Joseph Howlett…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (434+ words) Noether's work helped prove the conservation of energy in physics, a key foundation for Einstein's theory of relativity By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas Portrait of Emmy Noether around 1900. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Physicists Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (995+ words) By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers. And yet, even today, we are far from having unlocked their secrets. On the contrary, it seems that even the most…...