An 87-year-old mathematical puzzle was solved using AI, surprising experts and marking the most complex problem yet tackled ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

The world is a pretty complicated place. Just think about all the moving parts it takes to get sliced bread delivered, regularly, to your local grocery store and then apply that to every facet of life ...

A legendary maths riddle finally has an answer. OpenAI says one of its general-purpose AI models has autonomously solved a famous problem first posed in 1946, with external mathematicians checking the ...

A 23‑year‑old amateur maths enthusiast, Liam Price, used ChatGPT‑5.4 Pro to solve one of Erdős’s long‑standing “primitive set” problems, which had remained unresolved since the early 1960s.

23-year-old Liam Price has solved a decades-old mathematical problem with a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro – in a way that has caused more astonishment in the professional world than many other AI ...