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Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.

By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a deeper truth beyond one system.” But what can such experiments teach us?

If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?

After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve.

A quantum approach to data analysis that relies on the study of shapes will likely remain an example of a quantum advantage — albeit for increasingly unlikely scenarios.

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.

Two new studies suggest that certain tetrahedral arrangements of galaxies outnumber their mirror images, potentially reflecting details of the universe’s birth. But confirmation is needed.

Wordle is a word game. But you can use math to optimize your chances of winning (without cheating).

Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia.