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 ...

Artificial intelligence is far from perfect, so alarm bells started ringing as soon as reports surfaced that the Trump administration was planning to use AI to write federal regulations. That concern ...

As the demand for lithium-ion batteries surges, driven by the electric vehicle market accounting for 60% of battery usage, a crucial question arises: what happens to these batteries once they reach ...

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Oregon doesn’t have a transportation funding problem. Rather, it has a public finance problem. Budgets for all aspects of public service and capital investment are falling short. To date, our leaders ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Struggling with a problem that seems to require trigonometry? This lesson shows how to solve it without using trigonometry, using two easy methods anyone can apply. With clear logic and step-by-step ...

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands. By Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

H ave you ever met a Zionist Foucauldian? Some 30 years ago, I half-jokingly asked my fellow graduate students in a social-theory course if they had ever encountered such a creature. No one had. The ...

Kimberly Ysla and Charlie Medina's five children love volunteering. They were planning on helping with Christmas present donation drives this season, but after the family's car broke down, that has ...