Artificial intelligence can do your taxes and write your emails, but give it a clock and things go sideways, sometimes ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathemat ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Research suggests that individuals who partake in creative activities, such as arts and crafts, musical instruments, and ...

OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday ...

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Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

The enhanced reasoning mode is only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers through the Gemini app. It’s currently the highest-performing model on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark, with Google ...

The landlord has gotten millions in federal rent subsidies even as tenants complain about years of poor maintenance and deplorable conditions. In the beloved 1986 movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the ...