We're here at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. It's just *** stone's throw from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was debated and then adopted July 4th, 1776.

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

The birthplace of democracy is now the 6th largest city in America, but history endures in Philadelphia. Independence Hall was the meeting place for the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776.

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday said it will hear a case from British Columbia on the legal breadth of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in domestic laws. B.C. had ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

America is turning 250. The country’s birthday arrives amid a war with Iran, soaring prices and a firestorm of political polarization. As America looks inward at its history and its future, how is a ...

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...

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The American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire, is expanding its mission and changing its name to the American Independence Center. Previously focused on the Revolutionary era, the center ...