The eight-hour rule is clearly too simple. People need different amounts of sleep, and when we sleep matters too. But one ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

Just southwest of Edmonton, Highway 627 in Parkland County has seen an uptick in the number of serious car crashes. The CBC's Tristan Mottershead reports. Analysis - Toyota and Honda may get stuck ...

Although mountain lions are fearsome predators, the wild cats might also help keep humans safe in a surprising way. When the large carnivores—sometimes also called pumas, cougars or panthers—are ...

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A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

As the number of satellites orbiting Earth continues to grow, so does the risk of crashes between these spacecraft. Such collisions could create fields of debris, potentially rendering entire areas of ...

On Monday, a JetBlue pilot reported striking a drone when landing the plane at JFK International Airport in New York. Days before, a United Airlines pilot said he narrowly missed a drone when at ...

Three accidents have closed commuter-heavy roadways in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Friday morning. Here's what you need to know. A collision took place outside of Keller at State Highway 114 at ...

Every generation faces a new technological revolution. Today it's artificial intelligence. Just 40 years ago it was the internet. And according to some of the biggest names in tech, AI may eventually ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...