Key advances in the development of artificial neural networks came from psychologists seeking to understand how the human mind works.

Andrew Ludwig's January 20 Another Voice on polarized opinions relies on ideas from mathematical logic, but a few logical steps are mixed up.

The San Francisco 49ers have been tied to a viral conspiracy in recent months, claiming their rash of injuries stems from practicing next to an electrical substation. The theory suggests ...

Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of ...

Take the pressure off of problem solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find solutions. Like many teachers, I used to think of problem-solving as something I ...

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade power into the hands of everyone.” Apple Creator ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

Physicists present evidence that the universe is not a computer simulation. Credit: Amanclos / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr A team of physicists has presented new mathematical evidence that challenges the ...