AI agents began providing "answers" to unsolved mathematical problems. At the beginning of the year, it was only a matter of ...

Richard Borcherds, an acclaimed mathematician who won the Fields Medal (often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics) in ...

OpenAI announced that it had obtained "major" discoveries in three fields: mathematics, computer science, and physics. The ...

In a single short window, AI systems reportedly solved the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, produced a Navier-Stokes blowup counterexample, proved the ...

Universities are embracing oral exams and other assessment methods as AI raises questions about traditional assignments.

A UC Berkeley mathematics professor has stopped grading his students’ homework for correctness, saying there’s little point ...

Normally, meta-analyses would be the right place to look, since they’re supposed to gather a scattered body of research and ...

How can we extend the limits of observation to “see” the seemingly invisible? On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Katie Bouman, ...

The new policies—adopted by Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Maryland—require schools to commit 60 minutes a day or 300 minutes ...

AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the ...

At MIT, or any college really, sickness spreads like wildfire. I hear about classmates getting sick all the time, but they ...