A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, ...

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When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

It is the year 2036. A patient struggling with depression and anxiety is referred to her local psychobiotics clinic where the ...