OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

The King County Council is demanding action in correcting the $45 million budget deficit of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. On May 5, the council approved a motion to call on King ...

Matter Industries founder Adam Root has developed a filter to trap microfibres at home and on an industrial scale. But is it just a drop in the ocean? The dinky device slots seamlessly into the modest ...

A Southwest Airlines flight was delayed for about an hour recently for a most unusual reason. A humanoid robot had been brought on board as a passenger. But it couldn't take to the skies right away.

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

Objective There is a lack of prospective data on mental health of elite Para athletes. The objective was to identify and follow elite Para athletes at risk of mental health problems. Methods In a ...

A new Washington state law offers a way to make change in an era without pennies. The federal government stopped making pennies last year but intends to keep the roughly 114 billion pennies in ...

Davos has become a symbol of global elites — and a constant target for conservative criticism. But behind the rhetoric lies a deeper contradiction: many of the same figures who condemn these ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...