In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

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Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

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 ...

(Aging Untold) — When it comes to skin care, more steps don’t always mean better results. For many people, a simple routine can still go a long way: cleanse, moisturize and protect. First, use a ...

We thought it was important for the Mesa County Valley School District 51 Board of Education to vote unanimously on a small, but important tweak to the district’s policy on cell phones. They did, ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

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This puzzle focuses on problem-solving under pressure with minimal tools. The setup is simple, but the trick lies in the assumptions people make. It encourages careful listening and logical thinking.