Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

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The Trump administration is taking another look at ending biannual clock changes, with an eye toward making daylight saving time (DST), or the "summer clock," permanent. On May 21, the House Energy ...

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China has executed a man who murdered his billionaire boss after a disagreement over the management of Netflix's 3 Body Problem series. Xu Yao was sentenced to death after poisoning Lin Qi, the ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Ludacris has released the cinematic music video for his new single “Pull Over,” produced by DJ Toomp and released through DTP Records and Def Jam Recordings. Directed by acclaimed music video creators ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

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After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...