Wolfram Blog

• Announcing the 2026 Innovator Award Winners

  Behind every major technological shift lies a relentless curiosity that pushes past standard methods and conventional thinking. The Wolfram Innovator Awards recognize leaders who do not just adopt computational tools but actively expand their limits to drive meaningful global change. Their dedicated work across science, engineering and education continues to inspire our entire community. Please […]

• Ingredients to Innovation: Computational Food Science with Wolfram

  In food science, small changes can have serious consequences. Altering an ingredient’s composition can affect its nutritional value and physical stability, while changing processing conditions can influence how a food behaves and whether it remains safe. The challenge is not simply measuring each effect in isolation but tracing how decisions about composition shape behavior during processing and storage.

• Computational Chemistry with Wolfram: From Learning to Research

  Modern chemistry depends on computation at nearly every stage of the scientific process. Chemists begin by representing molecular structures, then analyze chemical data, investigate molecular behavior and visualize the results of their work. Those tasks require computational tools that support scientific workflows rather than isolated calculations. Today, computation is as fundamental to chemistry as the […]

• Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionality

  June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica. Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language. It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be […]

• 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.

• Theory Meets Practice: 8 Books to Start Your Career in Astrophysics, Geography, Civil Engineering and More

  In or out of school, the opportunities to learn and grow in your career are endless, and Wolfram is proud to bolster those with educational resources, from courses to textbooks. We are happy to share conversations with two authors whose books cover applications of Wolfram technology in astrophysics and geography, as well as highlight a […]

• 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 […]

• A Data Adventure in Boston, 1929: Historical Census Corpus Analysis

  I am writing a novel. It’s a historical fiction thing. Apparently, that means I need to do a lot of research on what life was like in the 1920s. ​ My problem last night was, my character moves to Boston from Chicago, and in order to give the city texture, we need to introduce characters, […]

• 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 […]