The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

“A single application is never sufficient, but applying this doubled, rescaled force guarantees an exact return,” boasts ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

From industrial robots to self-driving cars, engineers face a common problem: keeping machines steady and predictable. When ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

Polynomial equations are a cornerstone of modern science, providing a mathematical basis for celestial mechanics, computer graphics, market growth predictions and much more. But although most high ...

Nobel committees recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in two of this year’s prizes — honouring pioneers of neural networks with the physics prize, and the developers of ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...