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Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is ...

How many triangles can you count in this image? It’s harder than it looks and bound to baffle even the sharpest of brains for ...

MEMS faculty, staff, and students spent the summer mentoring young researchers, engaging middle schoolers in STEM, and ...

When counting squares in a grid, don’t stop at the smallest boxes; the bigger ones are hiding too. The rule is simple: In an n × n grid—where n is the number of squares both horizontally and ...