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Iran has some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves, yet its economy continues struggling under sanctions, inflation, and political instability. This video explores the difficult choices facing ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...