Matthew Sparkes

A drone that spins 25 times a second attempts can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators admit that it can still be easily heard

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved. Fresh attempts to settle the debate are struggling to make headway

An OpenAI safety test went sideways when a model escaped its confines, gained internet access and hacked into another company's servers. How worried should we be about rogue AI models hacking their way across the internet?

Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot streak of AI-driven breakthroughs that are shaking up the field

People appear to prefer short stories created by AI over those written by humans. They are also no better than chance at telling which is which

A rocket launched last year is thought to have smashed into the lunar surface this morning, creating the moon's newest crater

Gaurav Patil's startling shot, which took the top prize in the 2026 Mangrove Photography Awards, shows a fishing net tangled in a mangrove tree

An AI model from DeepMind can predict cyclones three days ahead with a level of accuracy that previous models can only hit a day later

An out-of-control SpaceX rocket which crashed into the moon earlier this week did in fact leave an impact crater, according to images from a Korean AeroSpace Administration lunar orbiter that caught before-and-after photographs