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 ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Regression Task — Predicts a numerical difficulty score representing the complexity of the problem. The project is inspired by competitive programming platforms such as Codeforces and CodeChef, where ...

Artificial Intelligence is steadily improving, with developments like Google's Opal coding tool and a Chinese-made robot with human-like dexterity. AI is also being used to write computer code in a ...

We look into the mental health crisis affecting American youth. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The numbers are staggering. Nearly one in four 17-year-old boys in the United States has ...

Cognitive struggles are climbing across the U.S., especially among young and economically disadvantaged adults. Rates of self-reported cognitive disability nearly doubled in people under 40 between ...

Edmunds is midway through a one-year review of owning a Dodge Charger Daytona EV. Software gremlins have led to a lot of problems that ruin the experience. The reviewers say that they're sick of Dodge ...

The CSES Problem Set is a comprehensive collection of competitive programming problems hosted on the CSES (Code Submission Evaluation System) website, widely used by programmers and students to ...