In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

A new study identifies how water becomes ionized under electrochemical conditions. Hydrogen is expected to play a major role ...

The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book looks beyond happiness as the goal of a well-lived life.

When large language models (LLMs) are allowed to interact without any preset goals, scientists found distinct personalities ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...

For most of human history, information travelled slowly. It was slow enough to be filtered by institutions; slow enough to be ...

While standard models suffer from context rot as data grows, MIT’s new Recursive Language Model (RLM) framework treats ...

A research team from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel DNA origami-based technique to synthesize stable, monolithic amorphous silver nanostructures under ...

The proper resolution of the conceptual puzzle raised by Loschmidt’s demon is instructive. Imagine a glass sphere floating in space shattered by a bullet. To an observer seeing the fragments flying ...