A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

Given a particle in Euclidean space, a central force is a force that points toward or away from the origin and depends only on the particle’s distance from the origin. If the particle’s position at ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to do so. To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, challenges a ...