A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

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Anti-Ramsey theory in graphs is a branch of combinatorial mathematics that examines the conditions under which a graph, when its edges are coloured, must necessarily contain a ‘rainbow’ subgraph – a ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...