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Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics
...the spin glass, and how, in general, the evolution of a complex system as a whole relates to the dynamics of the individual parts that make it up, have allowed...
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
...then translated this concept into the mathematical language of curved space-time and applied it to the force of gravity and the evolution of the cosmos. Without Einstein’s theory, the GPS...
Laws of Logic Lead to New Restrictions on the Big Bang
...would take in this final frame, which is a static, timeless snapshot. “For many years the confusion was, ‘How the hell can I get information about time evolution … in...
AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology
...some scientists to look for solutions inspired by our own biological vision. “Evolution has been optimizing many, many organisms for millions of years and has found some pretty interesting and...
Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better
...if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per hand is enough. Not so for neural networks, the leading artificial intelligence systems for...
In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...need more data. The idea now is to take a movie of the black hole to see its evolution. Maybe it will give us better restrictions on the theories we...
Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life
...first molecules involved in the evolutionary process leading to life,” he said. Whether those peptides could have survived their arduous trek from space and contributed meaningfully to the origin of...
Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast
...about some of the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today, I was delighted to say yes. We are calling it The Joy of Why. It’s a natural evolution...