Inside a donut-shaped vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, superheated plasma recently did something it was not supposed to do: it ...

Researchers use statistical physics and "toy models" to explain how neural networks avoid overfitting and stabilize learning in high-dimensional spaces.

Gabriel Pecar’s undergraduate college experience brought together dual — and often unaligned — passions. Pecar, 23, of Cadiz, ...

We’re not talking about more powerful computers—we're talking about different ones," says the scientist, who sees a hybrid ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.

For many prospective students, a campus tour is their first glimpse of college life—and the tour guide shapes much of that ...

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are investigating the viability and scalability of shelf-stable, freeze-dried red blood cells.

Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can be in more than one state at once. When a particle's state is measured, ...

The National Academy of Sciences elected three faculty from the University of California San Diego to membership, one of the ...

According to Chairman and Chief Executive Arvind Krishna (pictured), that choice is purposeful. It’s also a sign that IBM’s ...

The organization’s exhibitions are deliberately designed to help observers engage with complex topics like A.I. and quantum ...