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Google Earth Engine (GEE) Client Paclet

Google Earth Engine puts petabytes of Earth observation data at your fingertips—and this paclet lets you access it from a Mathematica Notebook. This chapter from Google Earth Engine Client Cookbook: A Practical Guide for Wolfram Language Users explains what the GoogleEarthEngineClientpaclet provides, walks through installation and authentication and demonstrates five practical queries that showcase the breadth of the paclet. By the end, you will understand how expression trees work, which functions trigger server-side computation and the conventions used throughout this book.

Diego Zviovich
Education & Academic

OpenAI Disproves Erdős Unit Distance Conjecture

The Erdős unit distance problem asks for the largest possible number u(n) of unit distances among n points in the plane. This is equivalent to finding maximally dense unit-distance graphs. A recent OpenAI announcement concerns the asymptotic problem: the old n^(1+o(1)) expectation is false.

Ed Pegg, Wolfram Research
Computation & Analysis

Compression and Recompression of JPEG: Stability, Artifacts and Iterative Image Collapse

Every semester or two, students ask me about the implications of re-compression, especially of JPEG files. Compression comes in two main kinds—Lossless, which is completely invertible, meaning you get exactly what you put in when you decompress, and Lossy which ‘throws out’ things deemed unimportant in some way, so that when you decompress, you get […]

Flip Phillips, Rochester Institute of Technology
Education & Academic

LLMs, Symbolic Computation and the Future of Mathematical Discovery

“The cat’s out of the bag,” said the mathematician Andrew Granville, reflecting on the rapid improvement of AI systems. His phrase captures the mood of the moment: by 2025-26, large language models (LLMs) had become powerful enough to move from impressive demonstrations to serious mathematical and scientific use. AI systems reached gold-medal level at the […]

Jayanta Phadikar, Wolfram Research
Education & Academic

Computational Geometry Modeling of the Neolithic Circular Ditch in Vinoř, Prague

This tutorial is a follow-up to a recent post by the author herself about archeoastronomical modeling of Central European Neolithic Circular Ditches [1], or roundels, with Wolfram 3D graphical primitives. Here, the focus will be instead on the use of mesh-based primitives from computational geometry to build a realistic 3D model of a roundel recently […]

Jessica Alfonsi
Education & Academic

All Elementary Functions from a Single Binary Operator

A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, sqrt and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here I show that a single binary operator, eml(x,y)=exp(x)-ln(y), together with the constant 1, generates the standard […]

Andrzej Odrzywolek, IFT UJ
Wolfram Community

A Computational Approach to Early Breast Cancer Detection Using Wolfram

Wolfram Language is a multi-paradigm programming language designed for functional programming. It is mainly used in Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica. ​ This year, Texas Tech University organized a HACKATHON with the purpose of detecting and classifying breast cancer using Wolfram Language. This competition aims to introduce girls from Colegios Científicos to programming, promote female participation in […]

Valerie Artavia
Announcements & Events

Transmon cQED: Wolfram x Qolab Collaboration

It was a great pleasure to present this demo at APS 2026 alongside 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics John Martinis, CTO of Qolab, and my good friend Paul Buttles from Qolab.
A pure qubit state lives on the Bloch sphere—a unit sphere whose poles are |0〉and |1〉and whose equator holds the superposition states. This document builds the complete computational machinery for rotating the Bloch vector from the north pole to any target point, then measuring that state through the dispersive readout chain that a real cQED experiment uses. Every formula is immediately verified with TransmonLab code: if we cannot compute it, we cannot claim to understand it.

Mohammad Bahrami, Wolfram Research
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