Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI ...

A big problem that the researchers found is that “Many benchmarks are not valid measurements of their intended targets.” That ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In ...

A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate a map of the scene and ...

TrustInSoft has expanded its formal verification technology to support the Rust programming language and real-time systems.

A Supreme Court decision created a sports gambling industry now worth $14 billion. Many are angling for a cut.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

A new approach could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate ...

Planting trees is not enough. Although forest restoration efforts in the Atlantic Forest are advancing on a large scale, they ...

A new approach to identifying food deserts using grocery store purchase data suggests that store proximity is not the driver of nutritionally deficient diets – it is financial and social inequality.