Remember that math problem from 2014? A Chinese AI tool cracked it ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any ...

Elon Musk responded to reports the $500 billion Stargate data center venture has effectively stalled, saying, “Hardware is hard” and “Those who have tried to do so at scale will understand.” The ...

Working memory is critical for tackling difficult math problems, but it is finite and can be overburdened quickly, making it hard for students to parse out details and steps when working through ...

During the domestic political pandemonium last week it was almost possible to forget we are in the middle of the most serious threat to peace and security in Europe for forty years. We were talking ...