As a mathematician—and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures—I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a ...

At the heart of computer science lies a deceptively simple puzzle: are some problems genuinely hard, or is their difficulty ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly ...

Researchers have found a faster, more accurate way to design magnetic “bottles” that hold plasma for fusion power. Using symmetry theory instead of traditional, slow Newton-based calculations, they ...

We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

Most AI systems are trained on historical data. When conditions shift due to changing consumer sentiment, models trained on ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed ...