Why birds ignore Newton: New theory could sharpen models of flocks, crowds and cells

In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their surroundings, seemingly defying Newton's third ...

AI Learned How the Universe Works—and That Created an Unexpected Problem for Physicists

In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, cosmologists trained an AI ...
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The million-dollar race to ‘blow up’ math’s hardest equations

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

To discover new physics, AI may need to 'unlearn' the old one

A study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics explores how a machine-learning strategy known as transfer ...