Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

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 ...

New tax deductions for overtime pay, tips, seniors, and car loan interest don’t disappear immediately when income crosses a line. Some deductions, such as one for those 65 and older, end up being ...

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Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

This Timeline article charts progress in mathematical modelling of cancer over the past 50 years, highlighting the different theoretical approaches that have been used to dissect the disease and the ...