Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, ...

Hundreds of UC faculty are urging a return of SAT or ACT test requirements for STEM applicants, citing math deficits after six years of being test-free. A UC San Diego report of soaring math ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

LANSING, MI – Bipartisan legislation that state lawmakers say erases outdated standardized testing requirements for Michigan high school juniors got the stamp of approval Thursday from Gov. Gretchen ...

For the past three years, I've watched a pattern repeat itself across software engineering organizations—from early-stage startups to publicly traded software companies. The team adopts an AI coding ...

On-demand writing is a legitimate test of a student's ability to form an argument using provided texts. Kentucky's proposed HB 257 would remove on-demand writing from state assessments. If writing is ...

Does money lead to happiness? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Researchers from a coalition of West Coast universities were curious ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...