At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test ...

There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string ...

Rather than offering fixed predictions, Anais Daly's models seek to reveal fields of probability, topology where certain ...

A century-old wind-energy equation just got a practical upgrade—and it started at a student desk. By reviving and refining ...

Following a restructuring of the university over the summer into distinct but cross-collaborative schools, Brandeis rolled ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...