Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Decades of research in industrial-organizational psychology show that unstructured, brainteaser-style interviews have low predictive validity.

Famed investor Michael Burry on Saturday ignited a fresh debate over the sustainability of the artificial-intelligence boom, questioning whether tech giants’ massive data center spending can continue ...

Think you’re smarter than the contestants? Test your brain with this fast-paced trivia and puzzle challenge packed with math ...

Lindsay Caplan, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, posits that both types of art raise issues about people’s manipulability.

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to ...

Why do baseball umpires wear black underwear? How long is the longest burp ever recorded? Which two states make it illegal to get married on a dare? If you know the answers to those trivia questions, ...

Every two years, the world comes together in celebration of the Olympic Games. Established in Greece, the Olympics have been around for thousands of years. While they've evolved over time, one thing ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

With an overall mandate for its writers and directors to push the boundaries of television as far as they could go, The Twilight Zone really did become"the dimension of imagination," as Rod Serling ...