Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese ...

STANFORD, CA - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) Emmanuelle Charpentier and Terence Tao are two winning researchers on the panel at the Breakthrough Prize Breakfast & Symposia at on November 10, 2014 in Stanford, ...

Terence Tao was reading and counting by age 2, studying university-level math by 9, and finished a Princeton PhD by 20. He went on to win the Fields Medal, become tenured at UCLA at 24, help prove ...

Private letters from the late Princess Diana to actor Terence Stamp, who died last year, are going on sale, revealing the depth of their friendship and touching on topics such as royal duties, mental ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...