The wetland puzzle that stumped hydrology for decades—how physics and AI joined forces to predict unmeasured regions

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it

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 ...
American Institute of Physics

How to Support Transfer Students in Physics

• Physics departments can support transfer students in several ways, such as creating transfer programs with local two-year colleges and ensuring transfer students meet with an advisor during their ...
The Hindu

How OpenAI’s ChatGPT helped scientists crack a tedious physics problem

A team of physicists from various universities has teamed up with the artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-5.2 to arrive at a new result in theoretical physics, OpenAI announced on February 13.
Forbes

Did Van Gogh’s Starry Night Anticipate Physics’ Hardest Problem?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Starry Night, June 1889 (Photo by Art Images via Getty Images) It’s said that life can ...
EurekAlert!

Better understanding of the unknown leads to more accurate collision simulations

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 ...
Physics World

Entanglement reveals the difficulty of computational problems

Adiabatic quantum computing An example problem represented by an energy landscape. Each point on the landscape represents a candidate solution. The deepest valley represents the actual solution with ...

'It seemed to defy the laws of physics': The everlasting 'memory crystals' that could slash data centre emissions

In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to micro-explosions in glass, and using DNA to solve big data's big problem.

AI Reveals Unexpected New Physics in the Fourth State of Matter

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Farewell to overheating problems in electronic devices—scientists announce a quantum material that conducts electricity without generating heat, changing the rules of the game

A group of scientists has created a quantum material where electricity can flow without losing energy as heat. Until now, this was only seen in ...

Claude limitations: 5 things Anthropic’s AI chatbot can’t do

I like Claude. It is one of the more fun AI Chatbots I have used. It can write your code, edit your novel, summarise a 200 ...

SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.