Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up in southern India with almost no formal education, but his mind never stopped creating mathematics. Using nothing but a single outdated textbook, he taught himself advanced ...

The killer was identified as Ernest Theodore Gable, who himself was murdered in 1987 at 36 years old. "The convergence of irrefutable DNA evidence, fingerprint analysis, compelling witness testimony, ...

President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met in the White House and largely avoided criticizing each other, despite trading barbs for the last few months. Photo: Yuri ...

Some problems don’t always wait for parts; they meet a toolbox, a junk drawer, and a brain that refuses to quit. That’s where the best DIY shows up: fast, clever, and just odd enough to work. These ...

A group of math teachers in Tucson, Arizona, came under fire for their Halloween costumes this weekend. The teachers’ bloodied white t-shirts with the phrase “Problem solved” written across the chest ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Investigators believe they finally have solved the infamous and gruesome 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside an Austin frozen yogurt shop, known as “The Yogurt Shop Murders,” after 34 years. On ...

The key to making a successful product is to identify a problem and then offer to solve it. But what happens when no problems remain? Then you have to create one. Or three. At its “Awe Dropping” event ...

In just one afternoon, scientists used a nanoparticle “megalibrary” to find a catalyst that matches or exceeds iridium’s performance in hydrogen fuel production, at a fraction of the cost. An artistic ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...