Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

A new study describes how machine learning tools, run on classical computers, can be used to make predictions about quantum systems and thus help researchers solve some of the trickiest physics and ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...

“Lack of wings and lack of evident means of propulsion clearly rule out conventional aircraft and helicopters. Many are soundless, many move at such speeds and with such accelerations that they defy ...

Want to really promote science to kids so they keep that interest? Give them problems to develop solutions for. For instance, some people still like to read physical books (I’m one of them). Sometimes ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...