Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

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In today’s digital-first world, visibility on social platforms isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a business imperative, especially for law firms looking to build thought leadership, attract clients, ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in sustainable technology through the development of a method to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into methanol—a process that ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

This paper presents a precise and effective formulation for modeling and simulating impact with friction for planar multibody systems. Nonlinear equations of motion are formulated using normal impulse ...