Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

By remotely accessing an IBM quantum computer, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully ...

The University of California system abandoned its standardized testing requirement. It’s facing an existential crisis in the ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every industry, but some of its biggest opportunities are emerging far from ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, ...

Quantum Solutions has put satellite-grade infrared sensing into a drone the size of a suitcase. They’ve flown it over the ...

Sonic Pico Park was pure, co-op puzzling fun, and this is how it happened.