Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

Some people dreamed of puzzles, some didn’t, some were lucid, some were not. Interpreting the data proved tricky, but one thing did come clear, says Konkoly. People who dreamed of the puzzles did tend ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Washington can barely keep the lights on between shutdown threats. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are doing what Congress can’t: solving problems in their own communities. I learned this when I watched ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

COMSOL Multiphysics version 6.4 accelerates engineering simulations and multiphysics models. Full GPU support across all physics delivers up to 5× speedups in benchmarks. COMSOL now supports GPU ...

Public conversations swing between extremes. At one end, there is concern about how AI will be used. There is hype that AI, if left unchecked, will become so powerful it could cause vast unemployment ...