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 ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

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After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Authorities said they solved a nearly 30-year-old cold case when they charged Robert Scott Froberg, a two-time jail escapee, with kidnapping resulting in the 1996 death of ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

A Fontana police corporal has solved what authorities say is the oldest cold case ever successfully prosecuted in San Bernardino County — securing a conviction 45 years after 18-year-old Michelle ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

During Yannis Yortsos’s time as Viterbi dean, he oversaw a period of significant growth and transformation at the engineering school. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) Yannis Yortsos and ...