It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before ...

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

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Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...