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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Elephants moving along the corridor beneath the Meru-Nanyuki highway. The over 50km long tunnel has reduced human-wildlife conflict. [File, Standard] Herds of elephants have been straying onto my inch ...

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OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...

Indians accounted for 51.6 per cent of incoming international students in Canada in 2023, a share that collapsed to 8.1 per ...

The Swiss will go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether to back a referendum that would see its population capped at 10 ...

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

Whatever field we work in, things to get annoyed, frustrated, even angry about are probably easily found. It can be good to temper them with the creativity that comes from pretending, for a brief ...