AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

How do machines ‘grok’ data?

Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study

New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal

Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting

The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds

Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute

Physicists Finally Find a Problem for Quantum Computers Alone

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

A Mathematician on Creativity, Art, Logic and Language

A mathematician who finds poetry in math and math in poetry

Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI

'Entropy bagels' and other complex structures emerge from simple rules

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Scientists find optimal space-time balance for hash tables

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

What Makes for 'Good' Mathematics?

Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards

Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox

Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations

A 'Lobby' Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do

Maze proof establishes a 'backbone' for statistical mechanics

In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter

Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming

Cells across the body talk to each other about aging

Math's 'Game of Life' Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns

Neighborhoods for starting a life in the galaxy

More →