Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

AI isn’t just writing poems or suggesting meal plans anymore — it’s bringing new possibilities for science and what we know about the world. Scientists can now decode electrons, create new materials ...

Prior to SageMath 9.1, CPLEXBackend was available as part of the SageMath source tree, from which it would be built as an "optional extension" if the proprietary ...

At crime scenes around the world, the forensic entomologist Paola Magni is taking her field into uncharted waters By Jordan Michael Smith Photographs by Guido Gazzilli and Claire Martin Paola Magni in ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

Calcea Johnson (right), currently studying environmental engineering at Louisiana State University, published the new study with her high school classmate, Ne'Kiya Jackson (left), now a student in ...