Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly is a lucid dreamer. When she’s asleep and immersed in a dream, she knows that she is, in fact, dreaming. One of her favorite things to do during these sleep sojourns is ...

A new international research paper is challenging long-held beliefs about what makes the world's fastest sprinters so quick, offering fresh insights that could transform how Australia develops its ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to ...

Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream ...

This psychology-based problem-solving quiz reveals whether you solve problems through logical analysis, gut instinct, ...

By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...