In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to ...

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 30 addressed hundreds of university students as part of the Jubilee of the World of Education.

How sports betting monitors used math to catch Terry Rozier and dozens of others accused of fixing bets on basketball.

As distribution companies absorb electric vehicle (EV) load growth, aging assets, extreme weather and a decarbonizing grid, ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

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

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

AI owns the math. But the gut—the judgment, empathy, and intuition that turn data into decisions—still belongs to us. In the ...

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.