Mathematics often feels straightforward, yet some results challenge the way people instinctively think about numbers. Certain paradoxes and probability problems produce answers that seem impossible at ...
Several bills aimed at providing tax relief to Georgia residents are moving through the Legislature this year. If they’re all successful, though, some economists and public officials aren’t sure how ...

Forever Wars

Bush and John McCain, would drag America into forever wars in places like the Middle East. Trump would not. Over the weekend, ...
Artificial intelligence plays no role yet in interception missions - today it is still manual ramming or close-in detonation.
In North Carolina’s 4th district, incumbent Democrat Valerie Foushee is locked in a dead heat with progressive challenger ...
American forces might not be able to fend off Iran’s drones. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine admitted in a closed door meeting with U.S.
Democratic senators came out of a classified briefing about the Trump administration’s war with Iran Tuesday expressing grave concern. Senator Chris Van Hollen said officials peddled the same words in ...
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Will Democrats pop Trump's $50 billion trial balloon for war?

A supplemental funding request for the US military campaign in Iran will face an uphill battle in Congress ...
As Iran’s government faces accusations of killing thousands of protesters and arresting tens of thousands more in a sweeping crackdown on dissent, there have been few large-scale demonstrations ...
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...
What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...
Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...