These findings confirm the notion that numbers are encoded in the brain via detailed and specific activity patterns and open the door to more sophisticated exploration of humans' high-level numerical ...

A breakthrough astrophysics code, named Octo-Tiger, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to ...

Precision cosmology: the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will soon be scanning the heavens. (Courtesy: LSST) A powerful numerical code that uses Einstein’s general theory of relativity to describe how ...

Humans have problems with quantum mechanics. We have excellent intuition about the motion of a tennis ball tossed in the air, but what about an electron trapped in a box? The tendency is to use the ...

Netflix's code system is a lesser-known but clever way to unlock the platform's full catalog of programmes. While the ...

Everyone already uses computers in physics. At the very least, students use handheld calculators (I doubt anyone is still using a slide-rule calculator). Also, it's becoming more common to have ...

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Take a tour through the research ...

New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also ...

Most drinkers have been baffled by what a bartender is saying at some point, but you may have a better excuse for your confusion than having drunk too much alcohol. Bartenders have a secret code for ...