Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathematical models that ...

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our newest feature here. For the second time ever, someone has solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems—math’s ...

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 ...

In what is quickly becoming an explosive controversy in mathematics, a potential solution to one of the field’s greatest open questions has been overshadowed by allegations of espionage and unethical ...

AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out. OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company ...

OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air. The ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

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, ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Researchers have identified a previously unrecognised mathematical property that explains why one of evolutionary biology's most widely used statistical models can produce convincing but incorrect ...