AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Six local high school seniors won a total of $10,000 in scholarship money, the United Way of Northeastern Minnesota (UWNEMN) announced today. To become a finalist in the United Way of Northeastern ...

The victory of GPT-5.5 aligns with recent third-party analysis suggesting that OpenAI's models are currently superior at ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 2, 2026) “Show me what democracy looks like; this is what democracy looks like” is a common chant at rallies across the United States and worldwide when people come out to ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

On the evening of May 25, Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric vehicle. Designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s studio LoveFrom, the EV offers more than 1,000 horsepower and a zero-to-60 ...

If you spend enough time reading local news headlines these days, you’d be forgiven for thinking electric bicycles are one of the greatest threats facing American streets. Teenagers on fat-tire ...

James Hautman of Chaska, Minn., is the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an acrylic painting of three buffleheads, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Sept. 19 in a news ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new poll shows former Biden Cabinet member Xavier Becerra narrowly in the lead of a volatile race with ...