The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

Believing artificial intelligence is magic is just as baseless as believing photographs can capture spirits. That’s not ...

A mixture of DNA and proteins—known as "chromatin"—sits inside every cell nucleus as a jumbled puddle of genetic information. As cells prepare to divide during mitosis, the chromatin is condensed into ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

Foundational research is paving the way for next-generation quantum sensors. Physicists in Australia and the United Kingdom ...

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

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The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

Forget the Turing test. In Sam Altman's world, the only verdict that matters comes from physicist David Deutsch.

Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs the universe.

We also prove that the two sets of Maxwell equations only depend on the non-linear elations of the conformal group of ...