Optical illusions are visual puzzles that are designed in such a way that they can cause the brain to interpret what it sees differently from physical reality. These illusions don't mean that there is ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Finding a job continued to be a slog at the end of the year, new data shows: US businesses sought out fewer workers in November and hiring rates wilted even further. The number of estimated job ...

Optical illusions are tricky images that use colours, lights and different patterns to trick human minds. Illusions can be caused by a variety of factors, including the way the brain interprets images ...

President Donald Trump likes to use a big number to anchor his point, especially when he wanders off on a tangent. Often it seems that a specific figure is on the tip of his tongue. More often than ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

Prescriptions for what researchers deemed “essentially placebo,” are given frequently by general practitioners (GPs) in Israel and 20 European countries to a small percentage of patients, according to ...

Fund managers are not letting price get in the way of loading up on stocks. Bank of America’s long-running monthly fund manager survey found the percentage of investors in September who were ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

The Earth could be soon flung out of orbit or into the sun - all thanks to a passing star Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Inside America's only giant ...