Deep learning models usually need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples to learn how to identify specific archaeological ...

Starting class with this fun math review activity gets students out of their seats, boosts their problem-solving skills, and ...

While many school districts have been fixated in recent years on helping young students rebuild flagging math skills, there’s also a growing awareness that math learning among middle and high ...

There’s a $1-million prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle would help launch a profound branch of modern math about order among chaos and spark a ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

A conversation with journalist Josh Tyrangiel about treating AI as a strategic advantage, not just a tool. Many organizations are investing heavily in AI, but too few are asking the most important ...

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Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel ...

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 ...