Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

Beyond math and coding: New RL framework helps train LLM agents for complex, real-world tasks

The Agent-R1 framework provides a path to building more autonomous agents that can reason and use tools in unpredictable, ...

15 Fifth-Grade Test Questions That Still Trip Up Grown Adults

Many grown adults struggle with some of the basic concepts they learned back in fifth grade. It's not that you’re not smart—it’s just that sometimes, life doesn’t require you to remember the specifics ...

A Mathematician Thinks Black Holes Could Be ‘Cut and Pasted’ to Form a Wormhole

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...

Beyond Einstein: Could Our Universe Have Seven Hidden Dimensions?

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...