A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

In a digital era plagued by growing privacy concerns and eroding institutional trust, the power to prove something without disclosing sensitive data is not merely an academic exercise—it's a ...

By the first week of college classes, students check off the highest cost items on their financial lists like tuition, meal plans and housing. But one stubborn college expense rears its head – ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

The Trump administration wants to switch off and possibly destroy the climate-monitoring technology. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new ...

Run the Jewels, the tag-team of Killer Mike and El-P, hit the road heavy in summer of 2014 to promote their timely 'Run the Jewels 2.' Killer Mike and El-P keep the surprises coming following the ...

I asked Google the same question myself, and got the same result. It uses different wording than the original poster shared in his post, but the meaning is the same: The 232.6-inch Raptor is shorter ...

We look back at three of the biggest biology stories of 2024: a reconstruction of the ancient ancestor of all modern life, the discovery of a neural circuit that regulates the immune system, and ...