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All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

A new report from OpenAI and a group of outside scientists shows how GPT-5, the company’s latest AI large language model (LLM), can help with research from black holes to cancer‑fighting cells to math ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

President Linda Mills formally announced the creation of NYU’s Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science, a school aimed at building on NYU’s efforts to prepare students for ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

A team at the University of Stuttgart has engineered a compact short-pulse laser that achieves up to 80% efficiency—far surpassing current models. Their new multipass design reuses light within a ...

Nigeria’s newly appointed Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh, has pledged to reposition the ministry as a key driver of the nation’s economic transformation and ...

Nothing sinks a golfer’s spirits like their ball zinging back out of the hole. Now, physics and mathematics explain how it happens. The anguish of a “lip out” occurs when a golfer putts a ball, and ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

Just the other day, I was arguing my point to a colleague. I was pretty stuck in my ways, angry, unable to see his perspective. I was at the point of just wanting to end it and walk away. Until I ...