The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

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Kick-starting with the basics of digital twin—what it is, how it works, and a case study that shows it in practice.

Authors Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens team up for a new book entitled "Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black ...

A new analysis shows how shortcuts, paper mills, and pay-to-publish outlets have shaped where math studies appear.

Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare?

But perhaps this was because the academy’s announcement had committed the journalist’s faux pas of burying the lead: the ...

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The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...

Julie Gould learns of a career planning framework that can help pinpoint what you love about your current role, and how that ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...