VUB's Data Analytics Lab has published new results showing that it is possible to develop original mathematical proofs using commercial language models. In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, ...

The men's and women's basketball selection committees revealed on Sunday the teams that will compete in the NCAA Division I ...

Scientists have discovered that male fireflies in a South Carolina swamp follow local interaction rules to synchronize their flashing mating displays. The research is being presented at a meeting of ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

A caller named Bill from Pennsylvania put a question to consumer advocate Clark Howard on his podcast this week that cuts to ...

A Polish mathematician spent two decades crafting a problem meant to test the limits of artificial intelligence. A new AI ...

Zach Wahls is angling for a changing of the guard in the U.S. Senate. He wants to be the model for that change. Wahls, already the youngest member of the Iowa Senate, hopes to become the ...

The first days of free agency can provide us invaluable clues about what NFL teams think about their team-building calendars.

Massachusetts has a graduation gap on its hands. While the state’s high schools can boast that nearly nine out of 10 students graduate on time, less than half of the state’s 10th-graders were ...

Expanding existing frontier AI models will not address this problem. The breakthrough that set off today’s frenzy was the transformer architecture, developed at Google and scaled up into large ...

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.