AI can now fabricate courtroom evidence — and your brain is wired to believe it. Here's what psychology tells us about why ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and signed by Fields Medal recipient Peter Scholze, calls on mathematicians to ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

The planet is warming faster than ever, and as it does, extreme weather is intensifying. Of those often dangerous events, almost half involve flooding. So to protect the world’s coastal cities and the ...

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of ...

Proof complexity investigates the inherent difficulty of demonstrating that a given propositional formula is unsatisfiable. By analysing measures such as proof length, size, width and degree across ...

Sullivan & Cromwell's co-chair of restructuring admitted that the firm filed a brief in a bankruptcy case that contained fake citations generated by AI. The firm is one of multiple Big Law firms to ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...