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New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
...beyond neuroscience and reaches into physics. Physicists consider space-time as a cohesive, four-dimensional entity, a fabric upon which the objects and events of the universe are embedded. “Neuroscience must converge...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
...machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives.” We haven’t solved every problem we face regarding biological behavior because we have yet to identify the actual, specific...
Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
...areas of physics such as string theory. They form “a nexus where lots of different areas of mathematics come together,” Cohn said. “Something wonderful is happening, and I’d like to...
Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
...a different possibility. Cox’s team views the brain as a sort of physics engine, with existing physics models that it uses to simulate what the world should look like. Tai...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...and of business as usual. After Galileo and Newton dragged physics out of its ancient errors in the 1600s, it rolled forward from one modest advance to the next until...
Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
...numbers.” As mathematicians have attacked the hypothesis from every angle, the problem has also migrated to physics. Since the 1940s, intriguing hints have arisen of a connection between the zeros...
Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny
...particle physicist at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues. After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics...
Will We Ever Prove String Theory?
...person get into theoretical physics? What’s drawn you to that subject? VAFA: My interest in theoretical physics started when I was a kid. I vividly remember my awe and amazement...
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers. Strangely, although...