If Argentina and Spain combine for at least two goals in the final, this World Cup will also have the highest average number ...

FIFA may grow the World Cup again, but a 64-team field would far outpace the rise in countries trying to qualify.

Claude Fable 5 reportedly disproved the Jacobian Conjecture with a one-line counterexample, signaling AI’s growing math role.

A teenage math prodigy. A 40-year-old keeper with a sea slug named after him. These are the names we likely won’t forget from ...

As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated ...

Kylian Mbappe scored twice to reach 10 goals and reclaim the lead. Here's what Lionel Messi needs in Sunday's final, and why ...

Mbappe's brace against England sent him clear of Messi in the Golden Boot race before Sunday's final. Messi must now break ...

Ciro Benanti, a bespectacled 83-year-old from Sicily, eyed the walls inside his cash-only delicatessen in Bayonne last week.

Earlier today, an Anthropic employee posted on X. It was a short enough post, and said it was written during the World ...

More stoppages gave substitutes more time to stamp their mark – but how many goals is too many for one tournament?

Anthropic’s Fable 5 found a 216-character counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old maths problem. Experts are split on what it means.

For the first time, the World Cup final features the reigning European champion against the reigning South American champion.