Indian mathematician and 2025 winner of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work at the intersection of ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...

Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...

Abstract: Nowadays, there are time-critical applications involving linear equations, such as the fault reconstruction problem, where hard response time constraints and robustness to external ...

Cutting rates in December was a close call for officials at the Federal Reserve, with some suggesting it could be "some time" before the central bank cuts rates again, according to the minutes from ...

It's getting harder to get away with murder in Philadelphia. Violent crime has fallen sharply -- like it has in many other cities. And... Philadelphia is solving homicides at the fastest rate in 40 ...

The government spends about $1 trillion annually on interest on its debt, so a lower interest rate should reduce those costs… right? Tax-policy reporter Richard Rubin discusses why the answer is more ...

(Those countries that have good clearance rates often have tough laws on getting guns.) Others point to increased use of cameras and technology to generate more information for authorities to do their ...

Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein. He was being poetic. What he really meant, was whether the universe could have been any other way. Could it have had different ...