A manufacturing defect smaller than sand contaminated thousands of aircraft engines and created an impossible math problem for airlines worldwide. The Pratt and Whitney GTF crisis has left over 700 ...

Thomas Mulligan examines how cutting-edge artificial intelligence has finally cracked a trio of legendary mathematical puzzles that eluded scholars for decades.

When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up. Fad diets come and ...

Boeing's growth is underpinned by operating leverage, excess production capacity, and a robust backlog, as regulatory ...

The chances of getting stuck for hours in a grounded plane are soaring.

GE Aerospace trades at a steep premium despite defense strength; valuation models suggest 41–70% downside amid commercial ...

In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“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 ...