Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

OpenAI's AI model solved the unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdos in 1946 The AI found a counterexample disproving Erdos's conjecture on unit-distance pairs The solution shows unit-distance pairs ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Season Four of Tales from the Crypt keeps the momentum going with another murderer’s row of astonishing, A-list talent in the service of adapting a comic book series of ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

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 ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

Discover What’s Streaming On: For the first time, the ’90s cult classic Tales From the Crypt has arrived on streaming! Watch it… if you dare. Premiering all the way back in 1989 on HBO, the beloved ...

Tales From the Crypt has found a home on streaming thanks to Shudder, meaning fans of anthology horror can now gorge themselves on the series inspired by the 1950s EC Comics that aired during HBO’s ...

For years, Tales from the Crypt has been a streaming Holy Grail. The HBO horror anthology series and its host, The Crypt Keeper — a punny puppeteered character who looked like a mummified corpse and ...