The research of a Korean mathematician who solved the "Moving Sofa Problem," a mathematical conundrum that has remained unsolved for nearly 60 years, ...

Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural phenomenon observed in fluids such as moving water, ocean currents, chemical reactions, blood ...

In an interesting short paper just published in Trends in Cognitive Science, Caltech neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs offers his thoughts on The Unsolved Problems of Neuroscience. Here's Adolphs' list of ...

If mathematicians were to resolve computer science’s 'P versus NP' question, the result could be priceless—they’d be cracking most online-security systems, revolutionizing science and even ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In this guest post, former banking lawyer and regulator Martin Lowy argues that the liquidity of open-ended ...

OpenAI has deployed a new automated security testing system for ChatGPT Atlas, but has also conceded that prompt injection remains an "unsolved" security threat.

Britain is shipping 700kg of highly-enriched uranium capable of making scores of nuclear bombs to the US, writes Gordon MacKerron. The move is a symptom of a huge problem that's afflicting all nuclear ...

The ease with which developers can integrate third-party open source code has created a security and sustainability crisis, according to a senior executive at edge cloud platform Fastly. Speaking to ...

The son of a pastor, Christian Goldbach was born on March 18, 1690 in Konigsberg – the historic German and Prussian name of the city we now know as Kaliningrad, Russia. Growing up in that city and ...