Winners will be announced on Feb. 12 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in ...
In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...
While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...
To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...
All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...
This is where Emmy Noether, a groundbreaking German mathematician, comes into the picture. She found a breathtakingly simple ...
Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.
The speed of light is one of the most famous constants in physics, yet it has never been directly measured in the way most ...
Scientists have shown that it may be possible to transform materials simply by triggering internal quantum ripples rather ...
One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the ...