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Algorithms
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
Dec 21, 2025 7:00 AM
Artificial Intelligence
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
Dec 14, 2025 2:00 AM
Q+A
How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help From Physics
Jun 1, 2025 7:00 AM
Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
Mar 16, 2025 7:00 AM
Book Smart
This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection
Feb 16, 2025 7:00 AM
Breaking the Law
Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
Sep 15, 2024 7:00 AM
History of Time
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Jun 23, 2024 7:00 AM
Language Arts
How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable
Jun 9, 2024 7:00 AM
Physics
There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding
Feb 25, 2024 8:00 AM
Road Test
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Feb 4, 2024 8:00 AM
Pixel Perfect
A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
Jul 16, 2023 8:00 AM
Space Oddity
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes
Apr 2, 2023 8:00 AM
Steady On
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
Aug 21, 2022 8:00 AM
Breaking Point
A New Math Shortcut Helps Describe Black Hole Collisions
May 23, 2021 8:00 AM
Goat-In-A-Circle
After Centuries, a Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution
Dec 27, 2020 8:00 AM
Odd Perfect Numbers
Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
Sep 13, 2020 8:00 AM
Magazine
Plastic on Steroids
Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Magazine
Professor Tetris
Jan 1, 2004 12:00 PM