By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help ...

The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin and Philip Easo, graduate student Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny ...

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to ...

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without ...

A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. The Quanta Newsletter ...

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on ...

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. Building a ...