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Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

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Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

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On CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime the evening of June 30, 2026, a guest said the quiet part out loud about AI hardware: “the AI ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...