I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called ...

Knot theory is a field of mathematics called ‘low-dimensional topology’, with a history, stemming from an idea proposed by ...

If you push an AI system too hard by giving it unclear prompts, making it do too many things at once or skipping context, it ...

When trying to teach a complex subject, sometimes the best strategy is to wrap it in something familiar. Like a burrito.

Limit order (blue line) instead waits for a seller to cross the spread. This order is “advertised” (lit), so the seller knows the buyer exists, and when a seller crosses the spread, the buyer saves ...

An MIT study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

Studies suggest that up to 95 percent of youth ages 13–17 use a social media platform, with many reporting constant use.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces ...

Cisco's AI prevents problems before customers know they exist, cutting support cases 25%. Inside their practical approach to ...

OpenAI’s o3-mini solves centuries-old math problems, reshaping discovery and sparking debates on AI’s role in human ...

Discover how the brain solves complex problems using simple strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning.

Abstract: Using an exclusive-read and exclusive-write (EREW) parallel random-access memory (PRAM) model with a fixed number of processors, optimal parallel algorithms are presented for several ...