Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading ...

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display. By Siobhan Roberts It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the Dutch sculptor Rinus Roelofs organizes his life ...

Converting protein tertiary structure into discrete tokens via vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) creates a language of 3D geometry and provides a natural interface between sequence ...

Learning math is a deeply cognitive experience. But the strength of that learning is highly influenced by emotions. The brain systems we aim to recruit in education—attention, motivation, memory, and ...

The billionaire heiress who recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign is bankrolling a national push to bring “woke math” into public schools ...

As a high schooler growing up in Yonkers, I was the kid my math teachers could ask to help the students who struggled in class. I was fortunate that math came pretty easily to me, and I could explain ...

OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco An artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary ...

Why is untangling two small knots more difficult than unravelling one big one? Surprisingly, mathematicians have found that larger and seemingly more complex knots created by joining two simpler ones ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...