Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems. We look back at three of the ...

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Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to ...

Richard Green is a freelance mathematics writer and a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a degree from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University ...

A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...