What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

A new computational method allows modern atomic models to learn from experimental thermodynamic data, according to a ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply ...

Scientists complete Schrödinger’s color theory after 100 years, resolving the mathematics behind how humans perceive hue.

Elon Musk went silent for 14 seconds. In a 2019 conversation with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman, Musk, who is known for his ...

An agent can produce a mathematically elegant, third-normal-form schema that is functionally irrelevant because it fails to capture the political or operational nuances of the organization. Deploying ...

A groundbreaking computational physics framework has demonstrated that the three-dimensional fabric of the universe can be generated from scratch using a simple algorithm with exactly zero free ...

The largest moon of Saturn is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don't know exactly how it came ...

The actions of AI large language models are concerning—but broadly similar to human decision-makers, who have used nuclear ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive collisions.

When Richard Feynman first conceived of quantum computers in the 1980s, he believed they should primarily investigate quantum phenomena. So that’s what a group of chemists did: they used quantum ...