AI agents began providing "answers" to unsolved mathematical problems. At the beginning of the year, it was only a matter of ...

When identical charges repel each other but are confined to the surface of a sphere, they seek the arrangement with the lowest possible energy. The idea is simple, but the problem gets harder to solve ...

Universities are embracing oral exams and other assessment methods as AI raises questions about traditional assignments.

How can we extend the limits of observation to “see” the seemingly invisible? On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Katie Bouman, ...

A debate asks whether an average MIT student could crack JEE Advanced. The comparison overlooks fundamentally different ...

The new policies—adopted by Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Maryland—require schools to commit 60 minutes a day or 300 minutes ...

This post was updated Oct. 22 at 11:06 p.m. UCLA students’ grades in introductory math classes have decreased significantly over the past five years, according to data from the UC Board of Regents ...

AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the ...

Cynthia Breazeal, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and the Benesse Professor of Research in Education, and Eric Klopfer, director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and the Education Arcade ...

Julia evolved from an MIT research project into a global open-source programming language. Designed for high-performance scientific computing, it now supports applications across research, engineering ...

The IITs are often described as undergraduate institutions when that explains a shortfall in research or rankings, and as ...

When Connor Hill reached out to a Penn State mathematics professor as a ninth grader in high school, he had no idea how it ...