For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

“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 week, 8,000 Meta employees got an email by 4 a.m. their time letting them know if they were still employed. I wrote an opinion piece in the wake of those firings in which I stated very clearly ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Trade Desk shares fell after each of the company’s last three earnings reports — and they’re on course to post another sharp decline in the wake of the latest one. The stock TTD was off over 15% in ...

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a cornerstone technique for parameter estimation in statistical models that incorporate latent variables or incomplete data. By iteratively alternating ...

Trevor Story and a few outspoken Red Sox players are not aligned with the front office’s decision to fire Alex Cora and multiple coaches on Saturday. One day after firing Cora and five members of his ...

Shrinking into her yellowing wedding gown with the decay of her wedding breakfast around her, Miss Havisham, from Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel, Great Expectations, is one of the best-known characters ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Caen Cuto / Getty, Kenneth Richmond, Emilee Chin / Getty Images Several preseason picks for the MLB postseason have disappointed over the first month, ...

Polo Rocha has written about economics and banking for a decade. Mel Musto / Bloomberg via Getty Images Rising inflation expectations could lead to higher prices and wage demands, creating a ...