The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench,...
That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism.Stellar SymmetryLast year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at...
Heule, however, found the discovery of past results invigorating. It demonstrated that other researchers found the problem important enough to work on, and confirmed...
For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease the surface of a...
In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we now call a rotating...
Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the recently bagged double-charm tetraquark, what they’ve actually...