Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle ...

A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account the laws of physics—using Newton's third law. Their research is published ...

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex two-dimensional (2D) data, with potential applications ranging from ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we ...

Cooking dinner used to be the hard part. Then came takeaways – the quiet admission that you couldn’t be bothered to chop an onion or wash a pan – ordered from plastic menus at fluorescent-lit counters ...

Several winners at the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina have had their medals fall apart due to a faulty mechanism. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

In addition to ascertaining that the internal vitality of the mathematical sciences is excellent, as illustrated in Chapter 2, the current study found a striking expansion in the impact of the ...