Proxima b is the closest known exoplanet target, but Voyager 1’s speed reveals the brutal truth of interstellar distance. Even humanity’s fastest machine would need tens of thousands of years to cross ...

**A ready-to-teach Year 6 coordinates lesson focused on finding midpoints, calculating distances and identifying missing coordinates in KS2 maths. This lesson develops pupils’ understanding of ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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 ...

A long-standing mathematics problem that challenged some of the world's brightest minds for nearly 80 years has been cracked by an artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI. The breakthrough ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

The longest-distance confirmed sniper kills all came from shots fired at more than a mile away, with three coming in from more than two miles away. To make an accurate shot from an extremely long ...