Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

The saying “round pegs do not fit square holes” persists because it captures a deep engineering reality: inefficiency most ...

A year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a blog post that he expected 2025 to bring the first AI agents that could join the workforce and “materially change the output of companies.” Altman, like so ...

Professor Vu Ha Van, a world-renowned Vietnamese mathematician, has officially joined the University of Hong Kong (HKU) after ...

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

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For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out. Hyper-cognitive individuals often find the most satisfaction in the solving process ...

Halloween becomes particularly entertaining because you can buy enough decorations to haunt your entire block. Plastic skulls, spider webs, spooky signs, candy bowls shaped like pumpkins—all the ...

Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly intelligent individuals are more likely to overthink these problems, leading to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...