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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?...
Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...Kuramoto observed in an email. “Without a doubt, the processes of biological evolution must have developed this highly useful mechanism. I expect man-made systems will also become much more functionally...
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
...imagine it any other way. Clearly, some aspects of nature — like the orbits of the planets — are the result of history and accident, not symmetry. Biological evolution is...
A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
...of rules. For example, the evolution of the solar system, in its idealized form, unfolds exactly according to the rules of gravity. And so where our solar system is a...
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
...as seen from the inside. Quanta Magazine spoke with Smolin about his approach to cosmology and quantum mechanics, which he details in his recent book, Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution. The interview...
Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
...with images that had been “painted” with irrelevant textures. The systems’ performance improved, a result that may hold clues about the evolution of our own vision. Courtesy of Robert Geirhos...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
...classical physics — position and speed, say — are selected from a menu of quantum possibilities in a process loosely analogous to natural selection in evolution: The properties that survive...
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
...evolution gets close to the breakup point, the theoretical objects might even have something interesting to say about quantum gravity itself, Pretorius suggests. Beyond theoretical black strings, the universe is...
To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three
...because of a triple-system process. If a black hole binary system formed through the evolution of two stars without the influence of other bodies, they should be rotating and orbiting...