For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple. Reading time 3 minutes As typically is the case with ...

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Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved ...

When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn't always add up. Fad diets come and ...

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Medicine has always attracted perfectionists. The problem is that the kind of perfectionism increasingly common among young adults today may be exactly the kind physicians can least afford. A new meta ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Q-NEXT collaborator Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots — a mass-producible type of ...