Learn about the Merton Model for evaluating corporate credit risk, developed by Robert Merton in 1974, and used by analysts and lenders for credit default predictions.

For the fifth straight year, Toyota has claimed the No. 1 spot in Consumer Reports’ annual auto reliability rankings, reinforcing a dominance that no other automaker has matched in the survey’s modern ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

A Wall Street veteran is sounding the alarm on Strategy Inc., warning that the company's aggressive Bitcoin financing model ...

According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is to be ambitious, but not overly so ...

News that large language models (LLM) have made major advances in solving Erdős problems – a set of problems formulated by the renowned 20 th-century mathematician Paul Erdős – has created an ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists still can’t fully explain why. A new study connects the force binding quarks together to the mystery of dark energy. Upcoming telescopes ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...