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You did it, Seattle. As of Thursday afternoon, the Emerald City now boasts the Guinness World Record for the largest dim sum eating extravaganza. Sitting four rows deep along streets that were blocked ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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James Harden couldn't stop Jalen Brunson on one end of the court or pick up the slack for Donovan Mitchell on the other. Sarah Stier / Getty Images NEW YORK — At their lowest point Tuesday night, the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

There’s a marketing budget line item that doesn’t exist yet on most consumer brand plans. It should. Call it “showing up in moments that are already happening”—the run clubs, house parties, and baby ...