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The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...
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For more than a decade, cosmology has been stuck with a puzzling contradiction. Two ...
A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most.
Quantum can learn from the AI hype cycle, finding ways to manage expectations of what could be a very transformative technology. In the near- and mid-term, we need to not overplay things and be ...
OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...