Coffee professionals are fussy about the method they use to make coffee, the beans they use to brew, and perhaps even more so, about the techniques they employ to get the most out of each cup or pot.

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My first few years teaching math were a struggle for me and my students. Our textbook focused primarily on direct instruction: I do, then you do, but rarely we do. I tried to supplement with resources ...

When the tip and total don't match, restaurants have to make a call. Here’s how those decisions usually play out. Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

I mean, it was just so stupid. All the company’s AI agent had to do was some simple math. The agent could do a lot of other things for me, but not basic addition. So after 15 minutes of guiding the AI ...

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Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Earlier this month an artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced that their AI agent had confirmed a proof of two cases of the devilishly challenging "higher dimensional sphere-packing problem." ...

Shrimp lovers will notice a key item missing from Red Lobster's new menu. "Relevant, compelling and exciting is what we want Red Lobster to be for the future, and so we’re working on that now," ...