Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might ...

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

In 1905, Einstein established relativity under the condition of denying the absolute space-time valid in Newtonian mechanics. In those days, the quantum theory was also established by accepting De ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Artificial intelligence can beat world champions at chess, generate stunning artwork, and write code that would take humans days to complete. Yet when it comes to understanding why a ball falls down ...

Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China Sociophysics involves the use of physical models to describe human society. This makes it possible to simplify the ...