Latitude could be found by looking at the Sun and the stars. But longitude was much trickier, and many sailors ended up dead ...

Mercury reports 14 practical ways for small businesses to reduce shipping costs, emphasizing negotiation, optimization, and ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

The time of the day that you use electricity at home could determine how expensive or inexpensive your power bill is. Seattle City Light launched a new rate option called “Time of Use” for residential ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that an internal general-purpose reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture — a result in discrete geometry that had ...

Over the past year, The San Diego County of Animal Services has acknowledged problems in its shelters and taken steps to make improvements. Most notably, the dog euthanasia rate dropped substantially ...

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 6.45% from 6.37%. Applications for a mortgage to buy a home were just 5% higher than the same week one year ago.

PacifiCorp is asking state regulators to approve another increase in electricity rates in Oregon — and to let part of that increase take effect almost immediately while the case is under review. It’s ...