Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.

After failing to acquire Snapchat years ago, Meta appears to be revisiting the same playbook with a fresh twist. Its new ...

Oppo Reno 15 Pro Mini packs a 200MP camera, 6,200mAh battery, and bold design into a compact body. But is it a true flagship ...

Cadet Ananya Ganesh did not expect to be a math major. Cadet Babe “BK” Kwasniak was planning to study history. Together, they ...

Autonomous AI agents are handing systems integrators a capability that vendors never could: the power to roll your own ...

Amid ongoing toilet trouble, the Artemis II astronauts reflected on the wonder of sailing through deep space to the moon.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Quantum computers are already here, but they make far too many errors. This is arguably the biggest obstacle to the technology really becoming useful, but recent breakthroughs suggest a solution may ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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 ...