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Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
...some of the stuff I would later be teaching in my book. But still, this was just a hobby; at the time my academic interest was physics. I did physics...
The Information Theory of Life
...transmissions over a wire. Since then, the field has found wide application, and few researchers have done more in that regard than Adami, who is a professor of physics and...
A Ticking Evolutionary Clock
After a string of Insights puzzles related to physics, on the relationship between time and entropy, half-lives, overhang and quantum weirdness, we turn this month to the mysteries of biological...
Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
...particles might exist besides the known ones. This in turn could potentially solve other deep mysteries of physics, such as the universe’s matter-antimatter imbalance and the unexplained masses of neutrinos....
The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
...identified three central concepts in physics that could not all simultaneously be true around the event horizon of a black hole. One must be abandoned to resolve this so-called firewall...
Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
...slightly weakening with time. It’s a finding that has the potential to shake the foundations of physics. “If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about...
Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?
In 2012, the world’s biggest supercollider discovered the Higgs boson, completing the Standard Model of particle physics. Now a team of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new,...
‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles
...particle physics,” said Stöckinger. The Fermilab g-2 experiment is “our last hope of an experiment which really proves the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model,” he said. If it...
How Will the Universe End?
...it happen? (01:00) This isn’t the makings of a superhero movie. This is the type of theoretical physics that Dr. Katie Mack thinks about a lot. Dr. Mack is a...