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Scientists are investigating a mysterious pulse signal from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The signal reportedly follows a ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Submissions this year included the use of former AAS winner seeds and plants while incorporating the theme “STEAM Using AAS Winners.” ...

Ohio lawmakers’ so-called “Success Sequence” bill claims to teach students the path out of poverty, but in truth, it shifts ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

1 Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China 2 School of Education, Jinggangshan University, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China An experiment was conducted by temporal sequencing, ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in ...