AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution

A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 22 now available: DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

What is AI doing to higher education? And what, if anything, should be done about it? Chad Orzel at Counting Atoms had a post on this recently, tying the question to a broader point. There is a fundamental tension in universities, between actual teaching and learning and credentials. A student who just wants the piece of paper at the end has no reason not to cheat if they can get away with it, so the easier it becomes to get away with cheating (say, by using AI), the less meaningful the credential gets.

Occasionally, people try to give "even-handed" accounts of crackpot physics, like people who claim to have invented anti-gravity devices. These accounts don't go so far as to say that the crackpots are right, and will freely point out plausible doubts about the experiments. But at the end of the day, they'll conclude that we still don't really know the answer, and perhaps the next experiment will go differently.

The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was announced this week, awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for building an electrical circuit that exhibited quantum effects like tunneling and energy quantization on a macroscopic scale. Press coverage of this prize tends to focus on two aspects: the idea that these three "scaled up" quantum effects to medium-sized objects (the…

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed a longst...

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