A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed ...

A seemingly straightforward math problem has sparked debate online after leaving social media users confused over the correct ...

A brainteaser challenges math enthusiasts to solve a series of equations within a nine-second time limit. The puzzle involves ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

Researchers identified two consistent failure modes in LLM reasoning: overcomplication and overlooking. In the ...

Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong ...

What do Sudoku, AI, Rubik’s cubes, clocks and molecules have in common? They can all be reimagined as algebraic equations.

Engineering Research Center of Software/Hardware Co-design Technology and Application, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China ...

A simple sixth-grade math equation went viral on X for stumping adults who forgot how to solve a basic problem. 'Can you solve this!?' one X user asked their followers. The problem read ...

A new mathematical equation enables more accurate and efficient coarse-grained simulations of large molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, by simultaneously describing both internal ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. The mathematical average of a set of two or more numbers is called its mean. A mean is the mathematical average of two or more ...