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An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

Right now, the world’s best weather forecast model is a General Circulation Model, or GCM, put together by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. A GCM is in part based on code that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story. A new paper uses a simplified model to prove that gravity can be unified between quantum and standard physics. The simpler model still meets the established ...

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT's path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and ...

There may be a fifth fundamental force of the universe that we haven’t documented yet — and, according to new research, our best bet of uncovering it may not lie in deep space, but in objects ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, the magnetic anomaly of the fundamental particle known as a muon has served as a means to test theories against experimental ...

As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is ...