Some safety recommendations are treated as essential—while others become negotiable once influential people object.

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

The chicken-and-egg conundrum is coming home to roost for transportation’s energy transition initiatives: Which comes first, electrification mandates or infrastructure investments? There are no easy ...

At the second meeting of Gov. Kotek’s Transportation Vision Workgroup, members spent hours discussing how to change public perception of the state transportation agency. In their first meeting since ...

Members of a workgroup meant come up with sustainable funding for the Oregon Department of Transportation said that among their greatest challenges is overall negative public perceptions of the agency ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...