In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a Centralmaine.com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

In a contest designed to test the limits of the world’s best student programmers, an advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think did what no university team could, by cracking a problem that remained ...

Elliot Varoy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Math. It’s that five-letter word that still manages to haunt the dreams of both high school sophomores and overworked college students alike. Derivatives, matrices, word problems that somehow involve ...

As a forensic psychiatrist who testifies in court about the research-proven harm of solitary confinement, and a law professor ...

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google's AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly ...

With a Sotheby's auction in Saudi Arabia, a Guggenheim going up in Abu Dhabi, and Art Basel landing in Qatar, the Gulf has ...