The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

OpenAI has achieved a remarkable milestone by solving the “unit distance problem,” a mathematical conjecture that has challenged researchers for over 80 years. This problem, originally posed by ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

WORCESTER – Moments before a ceremony to dedicate a new location for the city’s oldest free medical program, Dr. Tracy Kedian gave her take on the state of the nation’s health care system. “Health ...

Vibe coding is legit enough that enterprises need to start experimenting. Finding the right tool for your users and use cases is the first step.

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For ...

In early April, NASA and its Artemis II mission inspired humanity to look toward the heavens. Now that the four-person space crew has returned home, however, the public still hasn't had its fill of ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Artemis II has launched, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and back to Earth, the first step toward planned lunar landings and eventual habitation on the lunar surface.

Here’s what you should know about this increasingly important water source. When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known ...