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Exploring the moon will require rovers that can think for themselvesNASA is planning to send three small rovers to the moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a patch of ground.Phys.org
A new 'golden age' of mathematics may be dawning, thanks to AI and human ingenuityIn May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the "unit distance conjecture" had just been resolved by generative AI.Phys.org
Melts in your mouth, but not in your car: The ongoing scientific quest to create heat‑resistant chocolateThere are few pleasures greater than letting a piece of chocolate melt slowly on your tongue. Indeed, the proximity of chocolate's melting point to our own body temperature is one reason it is so widely appreciated.Phys.org
Removing 'forever chemicals' from farmlands—at a fraction of the costA Yale-led research team has proposed a less expensive—and more environmentally friendly—method for removing certain "forever chemicals" from millions of acres of farmland in the United States and around the world.Phys.org
Why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AIAs millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, casually announced on X ('hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx') that he had found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a very old and well-known problem in a field of mathematics called algebraic geometry. He had done this using Anthropic's large language model Claude Fable 5, released to the general public only a few weeks ago.Phys.org