The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...

AI improves renewable energy forecasting accuracy by up to 33%, helping grid operators better integrate solar and wind resources. Predictive maintenance powered by AI reduces equipment downtime by ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

Think you’ve got sharp eyes and solid logic skills? A deceptively simple lineup puzzle is making the rounds—and it’s frustrating far more people than you’d expect. The challenge looks easy at first ...

In my “second” career/life here in the mountains, my volunteer efforts have been focused on affordable housing, which has been repeatedly cited as the single largest issue here in the Vail Valley.

Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

A strange thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox has baffled philosophers and scientists for decades. In the puzzle, a supercomputer predicts human decisions with near-perfect accuracy and ...

The robot completed the puzzle in just 45.3 seconds, breaking its own record of 55 seconds made just moments earlier.

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping the flagship model to version 3.1. The new ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...