Every day, millions of people play Wordle, the popular New York Times game that challenges users to guess a secret five-letter word. Using information theory, a team of researchers at Binghamton ...

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The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

Efforts to restrict plant-based products from using the word “milk” are gaining traction again, despite little evidence that consumers are confused. Most people know exactly what oat milk is — and ...

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More than 1,100 University of California math and science professors are urging UC regents to reinstate college-entrance exams, saying that unprepared students are lowering academic standards and ...

More than 800 professors in the University of California system, including seven of nine math department chairs, are calling on system leaders to reinstate SAT/ACT testing requirements for applicants ...

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

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