What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Mathematicians are setting some boundaries. Today, 16 mathematicians in consultation with peers and relevant organizations published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

If you are already registered to vote in New Hampshire, the recent court ruling shouldn’t impact you. You still need to bring an ID to vote, but nothing else is changing. For all first-time voters in ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday ruled the state's 2024 law requiring first-time voters in the state to provide proof ...

A federal judge on May 28 declared that New Hampshire’s 2024 law requiring first-time voters in the state to show proof of U.S. citizenship when they register is unconstitutional. The ruling is a ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don’t have the documents to prove it.

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...