In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

Diving straight into the foundational courses at Tufts can seem very daunting as a first-year engineering student. Between ...

How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question? Such a machine is the big picture aim of the newly formed Center for ...

Large language models are advancing in solving complex physics problems, from symbolic reasoning to multi-step quantum calculations. New research shows their ability to handle intricate derivations ...

One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, physicists are finding that those same equations describe how nature behaves ...

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine learning algorithms and neural networks that help computers learn. Their work ...

Google has introduced another capability for its Circle to Search feature at the company's annual I/O developer conference, and it's something that could help students better understand potentially ...