The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Picture a bizarre training exercise: A group of…
catfish prevent disease spread, earthquake maps and student with math learning disabilities
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A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic…
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned…
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
K2 Space Raises $250M at $3B Valuation to Roll Out a New Class of High-Capability Satellites
TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — K2 Space, the California-based developer of large, high-power satellite platforms, today…
That Plate You Just Dropped Followed a Weirdly Predictable Rule You’ve Never Heard Of
One innate (perhaps underappreciated) function of physics is to explain and generalize how stuff works in the real…
The ‘10 Martini’ Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics With Infinitely Intricate Mathematical Structures
But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that…
QuEra and Collaborators Unveil Breakthrough in Algorithmic Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computing, Cutting Runtime Overheads and Accelerating the Path to Real-World Applications
New Nature paper introduces transversal fault tolerance framework, slashing overhead for error-corrected quantum algorithms and accelerating the path…
The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this…
Brightspeed Advances Fiber Connectivity and Makes Community Investments
As the company helps bridge the digital divide, it’s strengthening communities through local initiatives CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 26,…