For many years, mathematics has been one of the most persistent challenges in Tanzania’s education system.Low pass rates in national examinations, widespread fear of the subject among learners, and ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

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As we enter 2026, there are two distinct technologies used by clinicians to interact with the brain: Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Neuromodulation. While the end results are very eye-catching, ...

From medical devices to the packaging that keeps food fresh, polymers quietly shape modern life. At Case Western Reserve University, few people understand—and influence—that reality more than João ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

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In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

AI chatbot ChatGPT-4 attempted a “doubling the square” problem, a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge from Plato. The University of Cambridge found that ChatGPT exhibited surprising “learner-like” ...