A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. The Quanta Newsletter ...

AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into ...

Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction. The ...

AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into ...

The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries. Two recent ...