When Hannah Cairo started showing up at Berkeley Math Circle meetings as a teenager, nobody was betting she would topple a ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus.

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

THE Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a confluence of brilliant minds in mathematics and computer science, recently fostered a ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Oz called the calculation "our estimate based on company numbers," referring to Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the makers of the ...

Stanford scientist Fei-Fei Li talks about teaching machines to see as humans do, the US-China AI arms race, and what worries ...

Gary Marcus argues today’s AI sounds smart but lacks real understanding, and says true progress needs human-like reasoning.

At a White House event on Nov. 6 announcing price cuts for those blockbuster weight-loss drugs, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz made an astonishing claim.

At a White House event on Nov.6 announcing price cuts for those blockbuster weight-loss drugs, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz made an ...

DeepMind is pushing artificial intelligence into one of the hardest arenas in science, building a system that can navigate ...

A vast, geometric feature buried beneath the Pacific Ocean is forcing scientists to rethink what they know about Earth’s deep ...