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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

A new study finds that a consumer AI model can help generate novel mathematical proofs, hinting at a shift in how theoretical research is conducted. Credit: Shutterstock New research has found ChatGPT ...

Automating repetitive tasks in Excel can significantly enhance efficiency and Office Scripts provide a structured way to achieve this. By incorporating loops, you can create workflows that dynamically ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Pro has solved an open mathematical problem that human researchers could not crack since 2019, according to independent verification by Epoch AI. Contributed by mathematicians Will ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Using only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the mathematical operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, can you arrive at the value 456? You ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) used an artificial intelligence system called Packing Star to solve a 300-year-old maths problem ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...