After signing a bill banning use of minimally cleaned sewage sludge on farmland, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a measure curbing ...

In an era defined by intensifying water scarcity and accelerating resource depletion, conventional linear waste management models—predicated on "take, make, ...

Millions of gallons of raw sewage are being dumped into the Merrimack River due to two breaks in a pressurized water main.

Costa Rica will reduce visitor capacity at the Sirena Biological Station in Corcovado National Park after technical inspections found serious problems with the station’s wastewater treatment system.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

A chatbot solution Recently, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced that its internal AI model had made progress on a closely related version of this problem, which suggests that Erdős may have ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Some facilities use this biogas to offset part of their electricity demand, helping lower the massive energy consumption associated with wastewater treatment. However, conventional anaerobic digestion ...