When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

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 ...

Have you ever gone to bed with a tough question and woken up closer to an answer? Sleep may seem passive, but the brain continues to reshape ideas in surprising ways. New research now explains why ...

Cassia Park believes in soulmates and fated love stories. When your family business, for centuries, has been peering into people’s past lives to find their one true love—their fated—it’s no surprise.

Mathematics has always been one of the most challenging subjects for students of all ages. From simple arithmetic to complex calculus, many learners struggle to understand formulas, equations, and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...