The James Webb Space Telescope has resolved the dusty core of the Circinus galaxy with a level of detail no previous ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

The difficulties of algorithmic dynamics in highly nonconvex landscapes are central in several research areas, from hard combinatorial optimization to machine learning. However, it is unclear why and ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Crunching hard grains together leads to their rigidification, irrespective of how the system is prepared. While certain features of the resulting jammed materials—e.g. their contact force distribution ...

When cancer spreads, tiny amounts of cells can break away from tumors and circulate in the bloodstream. A liquid biopsy is a means to detect the presence of cancer by detecting these cancer cells ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

1 Energy, Materials and Methods Research Laboratory, National High Polytechnic School of Douala, Douala, Cameroon. 2 National Advanced School of Engineering, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon ...