Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Not even Fox News was buying the Trump administration’s nonsense claim that the president has lowered some prescription drug prices by as much as “600 percent.” Fox anchor John Roberts on Thursday ...

President Donald Trump faced criticism after his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night. During the speech, he emphasized what he called significant economic improvements over his ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains something ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...