In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

On October 30, 1942, a group of destroyer warships from the British Royal Navy hunted down a Nazi submarine near the Nile Delta. The warships pounded the submarine with underwater explosions until it ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I am useless without background music. A writer by day and an avid concertgoer by night, I relied for years on Spotify to provide my soundtrack ...

Google has unveiled TurboQuant, a new AI compression algorithm that can reduce the RAM requirements for large language models by 6x. By optimizing how AI stores data through a method called ...

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250267. The rapid development of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems makes it crucial to achieve ...

Abstract: Job-shop scheduling is a fundamental optimization issue in manufacturing. It involves determining the optimal allocation of many jobs among machines to increase makespan, throughput, and ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...

Imagine you have a pot of coffee that amounts to two cups’ worth. It has been brewed badly, so it is much stronger at the bottom than at the top. If coffee is poured out of the pot into two cups, the ...

In the fall of 2024, two separate pairs of stellar mass black holes, hundreds of millions of light-years away, spiraled into each other and merged in collisions of unimaginable violence. But these ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...