An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving ...

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When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old ...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...

AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other ...

Solar panels, wind turbines, a hydrogen energy system and lithium-ion batteries are powering China’s newest polar research ...

The move drew sharp criticism from medical and health experts. “Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030 ...