By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

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Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. In the late 19th century, ...

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In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...