Three heads are better than one. Versions of this proverb are found worldwide and throughout history. Yet in the race to ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explains how advanced mathematical strategies dominate the classic naval combat game.

The White House gathered nearly 100 participants in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Tuesday for a closed-door working session that marked a decisive shift in the U.S. quantum security ...

In a continued development of patent eligibility policy following Ex parte Desjardins, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...

Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how ...

Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing pioneer ...

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it created a new majority-Black district. Observers ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...