A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical ...

In the ongoing campaign by artificial intelligence companies to take over pure mathematics, another round is commencing. The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large ...

Luana Lopes Lara says she took a major risk in co-founding Kalshi in 2018 with MIT classmate Tarek Mansour, but she never let fear or pessimism derail her. The prediction markets company spent years ...

Taback, the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, was announcing the visit of John Urschel to campus. Formerly an offensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, Urschel played three seasons in the ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...

At what point does the jackpot become so big that the math actually starts working in your favor? Buying dreams for $2. Pay $2, pick six numbers, and you could win $1.8 billion on Saturday night. So ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...

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ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a study released this month suggests. Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated subjects ...