A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments ...

It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in. ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

Our February Insights puzzle sent readers on a treasure hunt based on complex numbers. First we provided a bit of a primer, demonstrating that complex numbers (expressions of the form a + bi, where ...

As children, Daniel Larsen, his sister Anne Larsen (center), and cousin Laura Quinto (left) strived to solve The New York Times crossword puzzle. Just a couple of years later, Daniel would publish his ...

Following a post in the video topic that made me think, what's the most complex/involved math you use regularly enough to stay somewhat proficient in it? Not necessarily pen and paper math, not ...