Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, ...

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 ...

Philosophy at Peking University, Logic in Amsterdam, and then Mathematics in Lyon ... for Dr. Tingxiang Zou, borders are an invitation rather than an obstacle. Tingxiang Zou is taking on a big new ...

Digitally delicate prime numbers become composite with this one weird trick. Math researchers proved these primes exist using the bucket proof method. There are no known examples so far, but ...

Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

Healthcare has a daunting and growing supply and demand problem. We have a growing population in the United States and not enough physicians, nurses, allied healthcare providers and technicians. It is ...