One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill. Researchers at MIT, the ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

During an interview with The New York Times, Stewart was asked about method acting after the conversation turned to Marlon Brando’s work on “Superman: The Movie.” The legendary actor reportedly would ...

The sharp rise in mental health diagnoses among young people has ignited a polarizing debate. Many identify global upheavals as the source of the surge in mental illness — Covid-19, social media, ...

Cognitive struggles are climbing across the U.S., especially among young and economically disadvantaged adults. Rates of self-reported cognitive disability nearly doubled in people under 40 between ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...