How the brain learns and applies rules: Sequential neuronal dynamics in the prefrontal cortex

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

Physicists unveil system to solve long-standing barrier to new generation of supercomputers

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...