Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Google has a hand in just about every part of daily life, and its reach just keeps growing. You might not have even realized ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that giving high school students ...

A majority of teens believes AI will help society in both the short and long term, while parents are more split on what kind ...

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Sometimes, when solving a problem, two heads are better than one. Unfortunately, when dogs are involved, that’s rarely the case! Two Golden Retrievers recently lost their tennis ball in the pool, and ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

My sister and I have run a business together for five years. It’s a profitable business, but not enough for us both to have it be our full-time job. It would be enough for one person to have it be a ...