Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. Based in New York, Alex has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in journalism and ...

Alex Saab, a former businessman and close ally of captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, was arrested in the Latin American country on Wednesday as part of a joint operation between the ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

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The killing of a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse in Minneapolis that has sparked protests nationwide was a homicide, according to a medical examiner’s report. The medical examiner for Hennepin ...

In their first sit-down interview, Michael and Susan Pretti avoided recriminations and recalled the son that Michael called “an exceptionally kind, caring man.” “The truth is, he was an exceptionally ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...