Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit ...

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Some highly intelligent human mathematicians certainly seem to think so, as Margaret Harris reports from the maths-and-computer-science-focused Heidelberg Laureate Forum ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

In 2015, the two LIGO interferometers made the very first observation of a gravitational wave: attributing its origin to a ...

Although the Juno mission was expected to last only a few years, the spacecraft is still going strong despite operating in Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. Bolton explains how the Juno team has ...

Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Southampton create fibres that cut signal loss, boost bandwidth and promise ...

Combining nodal seismic networks with AI creates a high-resolution 3D model of the internal structure of an active volcano ...

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