Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Many people who are dieting and exercising to lose weight will come up against the dreaded plateau. "The decrease in the number on the scale stops, and they can't seem to push below that barrier, even ...

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00603. MD simulation details for comparing simulation speeds of ...

Abstract: The problem of substructure characteristic modes is developed using a scattering matrix-based formulation, generalizing subregion characteristic mode decomposition to arbitrary computational ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...

Large language models (LLMs), led by GPT and followed by numerous other models, have demonstrated their strong capabilities in many areas, from language processing such as text generation and document ...

I consider myself a computer science (CS) theoretician, but Wikipedia describes me as a “mathematician and computer scientist.” a So, what am I? To answer that question, we must consider theoretical ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...