GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

The extinct griffinfly had a wingspan of up to 70cm. Werner Kraus / Wikimedia, CC BY Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped ...

What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference? That is the core of simulation theory, one of the most unsettling ideas to ...

Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C. Credit: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-D In honor of Einstein’s birthday, we’re ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline In Will Self’s 1991 debut ...

Mel Robbins' podcasts, TED Talk and bestselling books, including "The 5 Second Rule," have made her one of the most successful motivational speakers. In her latest bestseller, "The Let Them Theory" ...

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In this short, stimulating, and at times provocative book, Gat, a political scientist, addresses some of the biggest themes in military theory with both authority and elegance. He probes an important ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Contrails have a simple explanation, but not everyone wants to believe it. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Calum Lister Matheson, University of Pittsburgh Online influencers with millions of followers have ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. American engineers have been calling ...