A once purely mathematical tiling breakthrough has revealed an unexpected optical effect when recreated at the nanoscale.

Climate scientist A Ramachandran explains how El Niño will affect Tamil Nadu and why local preparedness and emergency ...

OpenAI has said that Astra, a model it has not yet released publicly, produced solutions to ten long-open problems in ...

The Brown University mathematician fully embraces AI as a means to answer questions that have eluded humanity for centuries.

You know the feeling. Something happens—a comment lands a little off, a text goes unanswered, a thought slips in sideways. Suddenly, your brain is off to the races and the same thought keeps circling ...

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Computer language models, which analyze what children say during stressful events, are better at predicting their future mental health than a panel of experts in the field. That’s the finding from a ...

From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down to an optimization problem: finding the best solution among an enormous ...

Every few weeks, another headline: an attorney sanctioned for citing a case that doesn’t exist. A brief built on quotes no judge ever wrote. A filing that unravels the moment opposing counsel tries to ...

Managers rarely wake up intending to drive away talented employees. Yet every week, employees quietly decide they’ve had enough—not because of one terrible meeting or one bad day, but because they’ve ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The scene unfolding outside his patrol car at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday startled even the veteran police chief. “It was chaotic,” Chief Rico Boyce recounted to city leaders at a public ...