This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

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University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. A neural network is a computational model consisting of layers of interconnected neurons. Like the neurons in your ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

It was already a mind-bending shift, last century, to go from Isaac Newton’s absolute space and universal time to Albert Einstein’s four-dimensional space-time, which is dynamic, flexible, sensitive ...

Neutron stars are what remain after giant stars collapse, leaving behind a body so dense that its core crushes protons and neutrons into a tightly packed soup. These objects cool very slowly over ...

Turbulent flow looks like chaos — swirling, unpredictable, and out of control — yet it hides some of the most intricate patterns in nature. From storm clouds to jet engines, it governs how energy ...

Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...

STOCKHOLM — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. "This year's two Nobel ...

Students are getting a unique perspective on the quantum field and industry through a program they themselves are helping to shape. Quantum Scholars, which launched in 2023, is providing community and ...