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'Do the Math Yourself': Analyst Accuses Donald Trump Family of Profiteering Off Iran War

Business analyst Ed Elson accuses President Trump and his family of profiting from the Iran war through drone investments and cryptocurrency ventures.

International Business Times UK

Fields Medal 2026 winners include mathematician Hong Wang — the third woman to ever win in the award's 90-year history

Hong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.

LiveScience

Fields medal awarded to four young mathematicians

PHILADELPHIA - The Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize of mathematics, was awarded Thursday to four people -- two Chinese citizens, one American and one Canadian.

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A new ‘golden age’ of mathematics may be dawning — thanks to AI and human ingenuity

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been resolved by generative AI.

The Conversation

AI catches up with humans to score 100% at top maths contest

Artificial intelligence has reached a new milestone, unveiling the capability to score a perfect 100 at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Huawei and Xiaohongshu have declared that their AI systems excelled on this rigorous exam, marking a historic moment in AI development. Prior to this, no large language model had achieved…

The Economic Times

Over 2,000 years ago Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek scholar, measured the Earth's circumference with just a stick, sunlight and simple math

Ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes calculated Earth's circumference using sunlight and geometry. He observed shadows in Syene and Alexandria to determine the planet's size. His experiment revealed the Earth was not flat, which was a significant discovery. Eratosthenes' calculation of 252,000 stadia closely matched modern measurements. This achievement demonstrates how curiosity…

The Economic Times

Your Car Payment Is Not Your Car Cost: The Number Buyers Keep Leaving Out

The monthly car payment can make a vehicle look affordable long before the math tells the full story. A payment may fit neatly into a budget, but the car still needs fuel or charging, insurance, maintenance, tires, repairs, registration and a place to go when it is not moving.

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‘hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx’: why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community.

The Conversation

Why Animal Sleep Cycles Differ So Dramatically Across Species and What That Reveals About Biology

The Numbers Are Stranger Than You ThinkThe African elephant sleeps roughly two hours per night, often while standing. The little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, sleeps close to twenty hours. The domestic cat, which most Indian households treat as an occasional visitor or a permanent resident depending on the building's bylaws,…

Times Life

The 8-Hour challenge: SK On says solid-state robot batteries must justify a 4x manufacturing cost jump to replace 'inferior' lithium-ion

SK On says solid-state batteries can close the gap, but only if the math holds for companies.

TechRadar

Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have failed to since 1939.

Fortune

Are You Budgeting for Retirement—or Budgeting for Your Adult Children?

Retirement planning can get complicated when adult children still need financial help, and many parents quietly find their future savings competing with today’s family expenses. A generous heart can create a tricky math problem when mortgage payments, emergency bills, student loans, or childcare costs from grown children start eating into…

The Free Financial Advisor

High school math teacher seeks to win US House seat in Minnesota by emphasizing affordability

Democrat Jake Johnson is running against Brad Finstad, who has held his seat in Minnesota’s first district since 2022

The Guardian - US

Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it

When handheld calculators entered classrooms in the 1970s, critics sounded the alarm on a wave of math illiteracy. With the internet, the panic shifted to the death of reading.

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Why Buying Handloom Fabric in India Is a Political Act, Not Just a Fashion Choice

The cloth that embarrassed an empireIn 1921, Gandhi asked Indians to burn imported British mill cloth in public bonfires. This was not symbolism. It was a calculated economic strike: Lancashire's textile mills depended on Indian cotton exported cheaply, processed in England, and sold back to Indians at a profit. The…

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Walmart Rollbacks Worth Comparing Before Your Next Grocery Run

Finding ways to slash your weekly supermarket bill is a major priority for many modern families. This summer, Walmart and Sam’s Club announced a massive wave of price reductions on key items. These official Rollbacks cover many summer favorites, including fresh produce, proteins, and pantry staples. Before planning your next…

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.

Times Life

3 Spaced Repetition Habits That Make New Skills Stick Through Memory and Recall

Why Your Brain Forgets Faster Than You ThinkHermann Ebbinghaus mapped the forgetting curve in the 1880s and the numbers are still uncomfortable: without reinforcement, the brain discards roughly 70 percent of new information within 24 hours. The curve drops steeply in the first day, then flattens. What this means practically…

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Indian Women Who Choose Divorce Are Carrying a Courage That No One Around Them Will Name

The thing nobody tells you about the decisionYou already know it's the right thing to do before you decide to do it. That's the part nobody talks about, the months, sometimes years, you spend knowing, and still not moving, because knowing and doing are separated by everything you were raised…

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The Subscription Economy's Next Winners Will Compete on Retention Math, Not Ad Budgets

The most valuable direct-to-consumer companies in the world now share a structural trait that has nothing to do with their product, their branding, or their ad creative: they sell by subscription

Times Life

Why 16:8 Intermittent Fasting Works Differently for Indian Eating Patterns and Metabolism

The Late-Dinner Problem Nobody MentionsThe average Indian household sits down to dinner between 9 and 10 PM. In cities like Mumbai and Delhi, that number slides later. A standard 16:8 protocol that closes the eating window at 8 PM asks most Indian families to either eat before the rest of…

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TV Newsance 347 | Modi does math and your car pays the price for E20

This week on TV Newsance, everything is under water! Monsoon has finally arrived and you know what that means. From Mumbai, Gurugram, Delhi, Surat, Kashi, to Wayanad, cities are drowning, infrastructure is collapsing. Pick a city, any city, and there's a decent chance it's drowning. Same story, different year.

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The ‘Per-Ounce Rule’ That Could Save You Hundreds on Groceries This Year

Supermarket corporate marketing teams use elaborate packaging designs to confuse shoppers about the true value of goods. Large boxes and colorful labels create a strong visual illusion of an incredible financial bargain. Frugal consumers bypass this visual confusion entirely by implementing one strict mathematical rule during their trips. The per-ounce…

Medical Daily

New York City's Congestion Pricing Is Speeding Up Ambulances: A New Study Links the Policy to Better Survival Odds

NBER study July 7: NYC congestion pricing cut ambulance travel times by 63–70 seconds. In cardiac arrest, each minute is 7–10% survival odds. Here's the life-saving math.

The Independent UK

The hidden problem with counting calories for weight loss

When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up

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