Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Since Northwestern introduced its artificial intelligence minor in Sept. 2024, faculty have expanded course offerings and ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... PhD Fellowships recognize 255 outstanding graduate students across 35 countries who are conducting innovative research in ...

Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof qubits to run the first and biggest quantum simulation of a model for perfect conductivity ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...