We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

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OpenAI faces criticism for misrepresenting a math problem's solution, raising concerns about accuracy and transparency in ...

OpenAI's recent claims of math breakthroughs with GPT-5 have been met with criticism and embarrassment, as expressed by ...

OpenAI faced controversy over exaggerated claims while promoting its large language model (LLM), ‘GPT-5’. The company ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...