A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains something ...

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence more adaptable than ever before, but that comes with a drawback: lies. Generative AI tends to make things up, but ...

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.

Until recently, there were just 14 known convex pentagons (nonregular, five-sided shapes with outward-pointing angles) that could “tile the plane” (be arranged with flush sides on a flat surface, with ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit claims to have cracked an unsolvable math problem using a large language model-based chatbot equipped with a fact-checker to filter out ...

Gifted centers on the Navier-Stokes problem, prompting many viewers of the 2017 drama to wonder what the unsolved math problem is â and whether real-life mathematicians have since solved it. Directed ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...