Every day, millions of people play Wordle, the popular New York Times game that challenges users to guess a secret five-letter word. Using information theory, a team of researchers at Binghamton ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.

The letter has more than 1,000 signatures and points out that many incoming students don't understand high-school level math. Justice Jackson pens unanimous decision backed by SCOTUS conservatives ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

GenAI’s breakthrough in mathematics offers a lesson for medicine: solving healthcare’s biggest problems means questioning old ...

More than 1,100 University of California math and science professors are urging UC regents to reinstate college-entrance exams, saying that unprepared students are lowering academic standards and ...

Hearing aids | Dog house | Nicola Sturgeon | Nine times table | Triggered by maths Further to Nadia Khomami’s piece on the use of phones in theatres (6 June) and Rosamund Pike’s lecture from the stage ...

IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd. SpaceX’s recent S-1 filing promoted an “actionable total addressable market” ...

A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students ...

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...