Airlines mishandled roughly 24 million bags worldwide in 2025, and transfer connections, the layovers most international ...

For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, ...

For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, ...

How do bees make group decisions without a leader? Math experts have determined that the best strategy is for a few to assume ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

The makeup industry has a packaging problem most buyers never see! The video argues that makeup waste is not just about product quality. Heavy containers, hard-to-reach bottles, pumps, felt tips, and ...

For all the pushback against plastics, the material remains widely embedded in food and drinks packaging. From vacuum-packed fruit and veg to yoghurt pots, black plastic meat trays and milk jugs, 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 ...

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 ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...