The Atom and the Algorithm: Nuclear Energy and AI are Converging to Shape the Future Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

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AI-powered recommendation algorithms on social media are carving pop culture into tiny, personalized bubbles, fueling echo ...

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When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...

A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by enabling faster, smoother, and more flexible shape-finding ...