Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the silly yet remarkable science. reading time 2 minutes The 2025 Nobel Prizes ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize surprised many, as these developments are typically associated with ...

Machine learning can get a boost from quantum physics. On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, scientists report in the ...

I'll admit it, I'm a math guy. And recently, I've tried to express the emerging power of large language models (LLMs) in many aspects of life—including education. And it got me thinking: What if ...

Two scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” John Hopfield, an emeritus ...