One question in computer science has stood above the rest for decades, resisting every attempt to settle it despite its enormous implications. At the center of the mystery is a deceptively simple idea ...

Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a new study shows. Researchers have found that discussion is important ...

A new study describes how machine learning tools, run on classical computers, can be used to make predictions about quantum systems and thus help researchers solve some of the trickiest physics and ...

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...

There has been a lot of buzz about quantum computers and for good reason. The futuristic computers are designed to mimic what happens in nature at microscopic scales, which means they have the power ...