On October 30th, the six finalists for the 2025 CWI Best Thesis in Applied Math Award pitched their research. After careful ...

Annealing processors are more energy efficient and quicker at solving mathematical optimization problems than PCs. Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have now developed a new approach to ...

Artificial intelligence systems have made breakthrough after breakthrough mastering chess, in which games typically last about 40 moves. Now, to help solve the world’s toughest math problems, ...

Following a spate of deadly wildfires earlier this year, many of us find ourselves asking how we can fight such a powerful force of nature.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses- reentrance and temperature chaos-has been mathematically proven for the ...