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Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. In July 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy selected 278 ...

The week before Christmas 2025, five mathematicians were holed up in a classroom at ETH Zurich. The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough. Percolation captures a ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs.

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