OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

What does a bat-killing fungus have to do with the municipal bond market? More than you might think. And the link points to the possibility of harnessing investors’ pursuit of profits to help ...

Rising ingredient costs, shifting dining habits, and a persistent operational blind spot are driving significant losses for restaurants. Food waste accounts for up to $162 billion in lost profits each ...

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For as long as there have been generations, there have been older generations griping about younger ones — often about their seemingly weaker work ethic.

The New York Yankees went through the entire offseason without making any major outside additions, unlike some of the other teams in the American League East. It's a year where the Yankees are ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...