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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser MATHEMATICS | ALL TOPICS   Introducing Transformation The scale of change AI has brought to math is undeniable — it, after all, helped solve a Millennium Prize Problem just this week. To keep up with it all, we’ve created Transformation, our weekly bulletin chronicling the latest news in math and AI and what it means for mathematics as a whole. Read the latest ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems By KONSTANTIN KAKAES Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. Read the article QUALIA   What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? By NATALIE WOLCHOVER Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. Read the article GRAPH THEORY   The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof By GREGORY BARBER By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. Read the article EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? By FANNI DANIELLA SZAKÁL The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. Read the article THE QUANTA PODCAST   Does Computer Science Need Computers? Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL with BEN BRUBAKER Is computer science about computers? If not, then what is it about? Listen (Apple) | Listen (Spotify) Read the article Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2026 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010