Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new approach that addresses the limitations of generative AI ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

Following the development of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, the number of UAVs has increased significantly, and higher expectations regarding the effect of spatial path planning have been ...

The number of fire-prone structures across the country has nearly tripled to 7,987 within a year, underscoring a worsening fire safety situation despite repeated warnings from the Fire Service and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Abstract: Revealing the latent low-dimensional geometric structure of high-dimensional data is a crucial task in unsupervised representation learning. Traditional manifold learning, as a typical ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Systemic, structural change has always been a part of the perspective of the Greater Good Science Center. In a 2022 essay, editor Jeremy Adam Smith defines structural forces in the context of our work ...

KPMG is reducing the number of country units it operates globally in an effort to strengthen its business, retain workers and boost the quality of its auditing services. The Big Four accounting firm ...