Internationally renowned novelist and essayist Yiyun Li has become known for writing that probes life’s hardest realities. Li ...

War debates are again dominating global headlines in 2026 as geopolitical tensions and military conflicts keep rising. Philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell once captured the brutal reality ...

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

The math department’s new grading policy is meant to make grading more equitable across different lectures of the same courses. But some students say it closely resembles a quota system – which the ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

Writer Javed Akhtar on Sunday took on a user on X over alleged similarities, or differences, between the Mughal rule in India and the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel in the Middle East ...

New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): Hitting out at Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's recent allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI), Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday said that the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

The term "reasoning" is a familiar metaphor in today's artificial intelligence (AI) technology, often used to describe the verbose outputs generated by so-called reasoning AI models such as OpenAI's ...