To invade red blood cells, the deadly protists create temporary molecular portals that disappear behind them — doors we can ...

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life.

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are ...

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories.

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our ...

For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence ...

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem ...

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. Building a ...

Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers. A number theorist recalls his ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...