There’s a town in South Georgia where the rent is low, the streets are quiet, and nobody’s fighting over a parking spot, and ...

Composite photos by Raghuvamsh Chavali trace how city birds move between buildings, and reveal the science of flocking, updrafts and the hidden danger of glass.

A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to ...

AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the ...

OpenAI said in an announcement on October 26, 2026, that its internal models produced three research results in mathematics, ...

A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...

OpenAI says its models have produced mathematical proofs that challenge established theories in harmonic ...

Opinions about Sir Walter Raleigh, who sailed the seas in the 16th century, vary widely. Was he a gifted navigator and explorer or a brutal pirate who terrorized the waves? According to one legend, ...

Microsoft Research announced on October 21, 2026 that Xinzhi Zhang, a senior researcher in its Machine Learning and Optimization group, and collaborator Zhao Song have proved the ...

Kaushik Bhattacharya is an engineer and materials scientist, but he has always been fascinated by seashells. Part of the draw ...

For 31 years, the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture sat unresolved at the frontier of complex dynamical systems — elegantly stated, stubbornly resistant, open since Étienne Ghys first proposed it in ...

Conservation experts preserve and stabilize a fragile aerial antique. Diane Tedeschi The delicate details in this paper kite are typical of the artistry seen in Chinese kite-making. For centuries, the ...