A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...

For Woodin, the dream is to build an inner model that truly approximates V and therefore includes all the large cardinals. He calls it “Ultimate L.”It might seem like a hopeless task — after all, ...

Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.

For Martin Schrimpf, the promise of artificial intelligence is not in the tasks it can accomplish.It’s in what AI might reveal about human intelligence. He is working to build a “digital twin” of the ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be ...

Manu Prakash’s many tools, top to bottom: a sheet of logic latches for a prototype of “thinking” materials; a glass and aluminum wheel for his new “gravity machine” microscope to map cells vertically ...

The approach has been fruitful. In 2022, Gore and colleagues discovered that ecological communities undergo phase transitions — a core organizing principle in physics that describes, for example, ...

Throughout nature, throngs of relatively simple elements can self-organize into behaviors that seem unexpectedly complex. Scientists are beginning to understand… ...

Zoom out again, and you can no longer tell that the gas is made up of individual particles. It acts like one continuous substance. To model this macroscopic behavior — how dense the gas is and how ...

The brain’s energy comes in the form of the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which cells make from glucose and oxygen. A tremendous expanse of thin capillaries — an estimated 400 miles of ...

Lee Smolin explores the problem of understanding the universe from the perspective of being inside the universe, as well as the need for physicists to know… ...