Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

The Icmic cooker was probably invented in Calcutta by Indumadhav Mallik, a Bengali polymath. It is a large tiffin-carrier placed inside a larger, double-walled cylinder with a charcoal stove below and ...

1. What milestone did Taylor Swift achieve at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony? Swift, at age 36, became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. Stevie ...

A math question from China's 2026 national college entrance examination, or gaokao, has sparked widespread attention by turning a centuries-old cultural landmark into an unexpected social media ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Planar cell polarity represents a fundamental mechanism by which cells within epithelial sheets align their orientation, enabling coordinated tissue morphogenesis and function. Disruption of PCP leads ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

Some 110 million U.S. households use a range–or cooktop and oven–for cooking. About two-thirds of those are powered by electricity, while one-third use natural gas or other fuels. But of the ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

If there's one thing chefs and foodies have strong opinions about, it's cooking tools. Seriously, I know people who've paid a premium to have specialized spoons just for drizzling sauce on a plate. So ...