Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that looks impressively official. Then you ask one to multiply two awkward ...

Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

Alan Milburn says youth unemployment has no quick fixes – an idea with an important lesson for those thinking about how to rejoin the EU Mainstream politicians are rarely direct. It is part of the ...

Elephants moving along the corridor beneath the Meru-Nanyuki highway. The over 50km long tunnel has reduced human-wildlife conflict. [File, Standard] Herds of elephants have been straying onto my inch ...

Children are natural problem-solvers long before they can explain what they are doing. A toddler figures out how to stack blocks without them toppling. A preschooler experiments with every possible ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

Dr Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) pulls a Sir Isaac Newton move in the VR game in "3 Body Problem." Credit: Netflix If you're the type of person who yells "wey-oh!" if someone in a TV show says the name of the ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades.

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem ...

Let's keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.