Physics Nobel awarded to neural network pioneers who laid foundations for AI
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work on neural networks, forming the foundation of modern AI.…
Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it is possible
Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.…
Physics has long failed to explain life – but we’re testing a groundbreaking new theory in the lab
Modern physics can explain everything from the spin of the tiniest particle to the behaviour of entire galaxy clusters. But it can’t explain life.…
Nuclear fusion may still be decades away, but the latest breakthrough could speed up its development
Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that could power the world…
The great convergence – Does increasing standardisation of journal articles limit intellectual creativity?
Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews, the authors observe an increasing homogenisation of published work. Weighing…
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the Moon sets the stage for routine space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, is…
Answering the biggest question of all
Leibniz thought that the fact that there is something and not nothing requires an explanation. The explanation he gave was that God wanted to create a universe – the best one possible…