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 ...

The true culprit was identified soon after this HBO documentary came out. A new episode shows that the series was less about who did the killings than about the agony of uncertainty. By Mike Hale At ...

Researchers have found a faster, more accurate way to design magnetic “bottles” that hold plasma for fusion power. Using symmetry theory instead of traditional, slow Newton-based calculations, they ...

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Detectives in Camden County said they were able to solve a decades-old homicide case involving two young women who were brutally murdered in the 1990s. Using an array of new DNA testing systems, ...

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After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

A Fontana police corporal has solved what authorities say is the oldest cold case ever successfully prosecuted in San Bernardino County — securing a conviction 45 years after 18-year-old Michelle ...

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