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AI Reaches Silver-Medal Level at This Year’s Math Olympiad During the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, Google DeepMind debuted an AI program that can generate complex mathematical proofs By Manon Bischoff While Paris was preparing to host the 33rd Olympic Games, more than 600 students from nearly 110 countries came together in the idyllic English town […]

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans, from the 7-inch dwarf lantern shark to whale sharks that can grow to over 35 feet long. They’re found from polar waters to the equator, at

The scale and tragedy of the U.S. opioid epidemic have few comparisons. More than 100,000 people have died of overdoses every year since 2021. Most drug overdose deaths have a single culprit: the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. But the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that this brutal

These Pathogens Could Spark the Next Pandemic, Scientists Warn Scientists have identified more than 30 different pathogens that they fear could cause the next big pandemic in humans By Smriti Mallapaty & Nature magazine The monkeypox virus has been added to the WHO’s list of priority pathogens. The number of pathogens that could trigger the

Baby Boomers Should Stand Up for New York City’s Congestion Pricing Plan By canceling congestion pricing for drivers in New York City, the governor of New York State will hurt many retirees, who need the mass transport investments the move promised By Sarah M. Kaufman Victoria Phipps/Getty Images Forever young, the baby boomers who turned

Hazardous Melting Ice Could Sink Arctic Shipping Warmer temperatures were supposed to make Arctic shipping easier. But thick floating ice created by local melting is a bigger risk than people realized By Francisco “A.J.” Camacho & E&E News Large cargo ship filled with containers navigating through ice. CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change is thinning Arctic sea

Slime Mold Helps to Map the Universe’s Tendrils of Dark Matter A single-celled organism’s pathfinding reveals connections in the universe’s vast “cosmic web” By Mark Popinchalk Over billions of years gravity has pulled the universe’s matter into a chaotic netting of filaments, tendrils and voids known as the cosmic web. Galaxies are strewn along these