Classical public-key cryptography derives its security from integer factorisation. Diagram by Venus Kolhi. Quantum computers bring exponential computing power, ultrafast calculations, advanced ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

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 ...

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...

London Underground drivers have gone on strike again causing fresh disruption for millions of commuters. The 24-hour strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) began at midnight ...

If you have opened your social media feeds over the last week, you have likely run directly into a wave of furious commentary targeting Indian tourists abroad. In this report, we expose a highly ...