Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the ...

A new physics-based algorithm clears a path toward nuclear microreactors that can autonomously adjust power output based on ...

By Mackenzie Devereux The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie ...

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as cosmologists are hailing the successes of the Big Bang theory, ...

The algorithm is grounded in math and physics and allows a nuclear microreactor to automatically control its thermal power.

The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, ...

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Recent developments in machine learning techniques have been supported by the continuous increase in availability of high-performance computational resources and data. While large volumes of data are ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her ...

The 2,175-mile system of interconnected, man-made canals crisscrossing Florida, from Orlando to the Keys, has a particularly ...