In recent years, the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has shifted from quiet curiosity to relentless noise. Conference taglines, vendor solicitations, and slide decks all seem to begin with the ...

We have a motto on the NASA Psyche mission team: The best news is bad news brought early. Below, Lindy Elkins-Tanton shares ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

We meet Stephen Kaufman, who has spent 25 years architecting solutions on behalf of Microsoft. Stephen tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and how his first memory was of taking ...

In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, a new approach has emerged for solving combinatorial optimization problems, which involve finding the most efficient solution among many possible ...

A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve complex quantum problems, once thought to require massive supercomputers, on ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

New research on the bumblebee highlights the invertebrate's ability to solve problems on its own despite having no prior ...