A silicon photonic chip built by a Hefei startup and China's foremost quantum research university has produced the largest entangled quantum state ever generated on a photonic integrated circuit — 16 ...

A derelict SpaceX rocket plowed into the moon Aug. 8, reigniting a debate about space junk. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Crassidis from the University at Buffalo about the issue.

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A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

A seemingly simple multiple-choice question has left the internet divided. The more people try to solve it, the more confusing it gets, and the answer may not be what you expect.

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Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot streak ...

OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, ...

Held up as a new route to college admissions, the Classic Learning Test has instead become a remedial high-school graduation ...

It is impossible to imagine a future that does not have data science embedded in our daily lives. The field combines ...

Kiteworks finds just how unprepared companies are for AI security risks; Sam Altman says we’re at singularity, but others ...

Disproving the Jacobian conjecture marks the latest high-profile win in a historic year for frontier AI models in theoretical mathematics. (Image created with AI) An Anthropic researcher just gave ...