Gregory Barber

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, some scientists wonder what their role is going to become.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge.

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer.

Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane.