Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.
Baseball season just started, and everyone’s talking about these crazy new bats. Will they change the game?
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.
Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes.
The latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results fall short of the discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy.
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
Pi is an irrational number, and like some irrational people it just goes on and on. What is it with this crazy, crucial number?
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability.
Physics is weird. Especially when you’re dealing with moving reference frames.
