You can now hyperpersonalize your YouTube algorithm using plain language. On Wednesday, Google announced several new, mostly AI-driven features for YouTube. One standout is the Custom Feeds button, ...

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our feature here. But with the dust still far from settled, a different controversy is emerging: Did OpenAI even solve ...

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline had become a critical alternative export route as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed. Drone attacks damaged pumping infrastructure and forced Saudi ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“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 ...