Getting Into The Zone Slowly. For the last 3 days, I have been giving one virtual LeetCode contest daily. Weekly 511, 510, 509. [One of these on day 2 because I remember I missed ...

A long-standing mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is a 30-year-old question in graph theory, but a ...

A woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Riverside County, California, more than four decades ago has been identified as a multimillionaire real estate investor who vanished in 1981. The ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

A North Carolina man has been charged in the 1988 killing of an Orlando, Florida, woman after advances in DNA technology helped investigators identify a suspect nearly four decades after the case went ...

Authorities have finally solved the murder of a Las Vegas man who was strangled to death with a telephone cord inide his home more than 20 years ago, thanks to modern DNA testing. The case dates back ...

At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that’s more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region that is about 2,000 times wider than our ...

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the surprising power of ordinary “classical” machines. What Garnet Chan cares ...

The true culprit was identified soon after this HBO documentary came out. A new episode shows that the series was less about who did the killings than about the agony of uncertainty. By Mike Hale See ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...