The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, making the flight the first commercially useful Starship mission
8 September should have been an exciting day of celebration for mathematicians worldwide. Instead, it became a confusing, salacious and intriguing drama. Why was the solution to one of the world's toughest mathematical problems embroiled in controversy?
AI firms are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace, but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs. That is not the way to advance our understanding, says mathematician Terence Tao
One of the trickiest problems in mathematics has now fallen to AI after just days of work. The groundbreaking result was announced amid rumour after similar, but less complete work, also created with AI, was announced just hours before
After months covering the shocking rise of AI mathematics, reporter Matthew Sparkes decided to put a free chatbot to the test – and was shocked at the speed at which it solved an outstanding problem
Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's Claude AI managed it in less than two weeks
Foreign states and technology firms are scrambling for data from the Ukraine war so they can train the next-generation of AI models that might be used in defence and national security
Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the rest of the world learn from its efforts?
