The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

The Edmonton Oilers may have to make a decision as the playoffs approach—and it's not related to their top guys or a matter of who their starting goaltender is. No, Allan Mitchell of The Athletic ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — "I think the command in the huddle, your two guys that have been around the offense the longest, Ty and Austin, when they get in the huddle and they've got to rattle off the play, ...

Thornapple Kellogg — Dressed in a black-and-white striped shirt, seventh-grade math teacher Carmen Skiba blew her whistle as the Math Madness referee. The shrill blast signaled a brief halftime of the ...

Leaders often fall into the ‘fixer trap,’ solving problems instead of developing their teams. This piece shows how stepping back builds independent thinkers, strengthens trust and scales leadership ...

For Mason Cochran, solving a Rubik’s Cube isn’t a challenge; it’s routine. The 11-year-old fifth grader can solve a standard 3x3 cube in under 30 seconds, a speed that surprises classmates, impresses ...

When Congress passed its budget-reconciliation bill last summer, it created a bunch of problems for North Carolina policymakers — thank goodness! No, really. Federal law now imposes work requirements ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

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 ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Nvidia delivered strong FY 2026 results, but stock performance was muted due to expectations being merely met and not substantially exceeded. NVDA's AI-driven Compute & Networking segment now ...