In a study published in Frontiers in Science, scientists from Purdue University and the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Inspired by how our brains function, the AI algorithms referred to in the paper are known as spiking neural networks. A ...

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 ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

AI-powered recommendation algorithms on social media are carving pop culture into tiny, personalized bubbles, fueling echo ...

Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln—Abraham’s father and stepmother—are buried at Shiloh Cemetery just south of town, offering a quiet reminder that even legendary presidents came from regular ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...