One of seven extremely difficult Millennium Prize Problems posed in the year 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute (only one, the Poincaré conjecture, has been solved by humans so far), OpenAI’s ...

Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI. “The artists and the musicians have ...

The mathematics community is still in shock. On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that an artificial intelligence model may have solved one of the most significant problems in the field, the ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

Phoenix A* may be one of the most massive black holes ever found, weighing tens of billions of Suns. Its scale, distance, and mysterious growth challenge what scientists understand about how the ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...