Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

Microsoft's Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B uses careful data curation and selective reasoning to compete with models trained on ...

Design engineers can use AI-driven simulation to overcome bottlenecks and accelerate materials discovery with hybrid workflow ...

Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Thirteen years ago, no ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult ...

Richard C. Larson, Mitsui Professor, explores the role of operations research in everyday life and the concept of model thinking ...