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DAPHNE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) - Alabama authorities are warning parents after a child picked up a folded dollar bill and ended up with drug residue on their hands. According to Daphne police, the ...

An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

Mathematics is the study of shape and form, of numbers and patterns, of concrete examples and abstract generalizations. As a discipline, mathematics is not easy to categorize: it's an art, a science ...

At least six South Carolina school districts will be required to adopt new grading policies for the 2026-27 school year after the state passed a law banning “grading floors.” Grading-floor policies ...

Jacob Tsimerman, a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, has won the prestigious Fields Medal. He becomes the first scholar based at a Canadian institution – and the second Canadian – ...

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted awards in their discipline. Their names were revealed at the International ...