Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

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Nearly eight decades after she was forced to leave school in war-torn France, Genevieve "Geny" Heywood is conquering her ...

OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut ...

Disproving the Jacobian conjecture marks the latest high-profile win in a historic year for frontier AI models in theoretical mathematics. (Image created with AI) An Anthropic researcher just gave ...

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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

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