Researchers from more than 50 international institutions have launched Open Problems (https://openproblems.bio), a collaborative open-source platform to benchmark, improve, and run competitions for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...