Get the latest news delivered to your inbox. The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Individual cells in the brain light …

Jul 20, 2022 · About the author Zack Savitsky is a science journalist who has written for Science, The Mercury News and other publications. He earned a master's degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sep 21, 2022 · The research advances the perennial ambition of the field: to take cuprate superconductivity and strengthen its underlying mechanism, in order to design world-changing materials capable of superconducting electricity at even higher temperatures.

Nov 30, 2022 · Editor’s note: In February 2023, a team of physicists led by Norman Yao of Harvard University published a comment about the holographic wormhole experiment described in this article. After analyzing the mathematical properties of the model used to simulate the wormhole in a quantum computer, the group concluded that the teleportation demonstration should not be thought of as a holographic ...

Dec 18, 2024 · Biologists Meet the AI Revolution . In 2024, hardly a week could go by without some big new paper related to Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold2: a neural network that can accurately predict the three-dimensional structure of a folded protein from the one-dimensional string of its amino acid molecules.In drug discovery, for example, biologists tested its ability to identify new drug targets and ...

Mar 12, 2024 · The answers started to emerge last year, when Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, another author of the recent paper, helped develop a new quantum algorithm that could simulate quantum thermodynamics (which studies the impact of heat, energy and work on a quantum system). “I think many people have [researched] the question about what the energy landscape looks like in quantum systems, but previously ...

Aug 7, 2024 · In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized that carbon dioxide (CO 2) traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere — the phenomenon now called the greenhouse effect.Since then, increasingly sophisticated modern climate models have verified Arrhenius’ central conclusion: that every time the CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere doubles, Earth’s temperature will rise between 2 and 5 ...

Dec 19, 2024 · Big Beaver Breakthroughs. This summer, a team of enthusiastic amateurs solved one of the biggest open questions in computer science when they found the fifth busy beaver.Named for a particularly industrious kind of computer program that takes a long time to run, the problem is connected to some of the deepest open …

Oct 19, 2022 · As the pursuit continues, the proton’s secrets keep tumbling out. Most recently, a monumental data analysis published in August found that the proton contains traces of particles called charm quarks that are heavier than the proton itself.. The proton “has been humbling to humans,” Williams said.

Nov 14, 2022 · The development of relativity is usually attributed to Albert Einstein, but he provided the capstone for a theoretical edifice that had been under construction since James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism into …