Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...

Martin Hairer, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne. Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly ...

In the ongoing campaign by artificial intelligence companies to take over pure mathematics, another round is commencing. The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large ...

Doing your banking by phone is a convenience most of us now take for granted. But how can you be certain it’s safe and secure? Turns out that mathematicians deserve much of the thanks. That’s ...

For mathematical genius Wan Daqing, life is no longer a competition between China and the United States. Instead, he has encountered the rivalry of universities within China seeking to appoint him.

The JavaScript innovation train is really picking up momentum lately, driven—as always—by the creativity of the JavaScript developer community. The emerging local-first SQL datastores crystalize ideas ...

Google has removed a whole section from its JavaScript SEO documentation because it was outdated and Google says loading content with JavaScript does not make it hard for Google Search. Google wrote ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Linear regression is the most fundamental machine learning technique to create a model that predicts a single numeric value. One of the three most common techniques to train a linear regression model ...

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur even after successful treatment, or why do some bacteria survive despite the use of powerful antibiotics? One of the key culprits identified is "biological ...

Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...