Two University of Iowa engineers have won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a theory that would improve ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

Learn the fundamentals of Lempel-Ziv complexity and how it measures the randomness and compressibility of sequences. This ...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is rapidly reshaping programming education, yet little is known about how college students cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally engage with AI during ...

There have been a number of high-profile cases where scientific papers have had to be retracted because they were filled with AI-generated slop—the most recent coming just two weeks ago. These ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Society tells children that if someone has hurt them, they should tell a trusted adult. But the reality is often not that simple. In 34% of child sexual abuse cases reported to law enforcement, the ...

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version of the ghostly neutrino particles that are ubiquitous in the universe. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

This comet had its sunscreen on. Recent photos reveal that 3I/ATLAS did not disintegrate during its recent fly-by of the sun, leading Harvard scientist Loeb to double down on suggesting that it could ...