Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

In late 2025, American households faced an extraordinarily unsatisfactory housing environment, marked by record-high prices and rents that outpaced income growth. The flawed policies that produced ...

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Union High School District has partnered with an organization to help give students experience with small and big businesses in our community. The goal is for students to help ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are tons of new smart gadgets coming out that you might want to be using. Many of them — like LED lights and smart speakers — can add ...

Scientists have found a way to plant ideas in dreams to boost creativity in a move that could bring Inception-style 'dream hacking' closer to reality. In the smash-hit Christopher Nolan sci-fi film, a ...

An old, flattened piece of limestone inscribed with a crisscross of grooves looks like the board for a game, but for nearly a century, no one knew how the game was played. Now, researchers have used ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

There are some problems that gamers have been putting up with for years. Video game genres generally have formulas. Soulslikes, city-builders, third-person shooters, and so on; there are systems you ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...