1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1673+ words) From finding new particles to creating new materials, artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important part of physics, but what happens if it produces answers that we do not – or cannot – fathom? Claire Malone investigates In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to…...

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1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (687+ words) Amy Searle is a recently graduated PhD student in quantum physics from the University of Oxford. She studied a phenomenon called contextuality, which quantum systems can exhibit, and which distinguishes them from classical systems. The logical inconsistency at the base…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (885+ words) A single-celled organism provides an excellent metaphor for what quantum mechanics says about the world. Robert P Crease and Gino Elia explain Quantum mechanics is so full of strange phenomena that it’s not surprising that physicists have had to dream…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (236+ words) The researchers chose to explore states that are physically relevant across different areas of quantum physics, allowing them to probe entanglement patterns relevant to quantum simulation, communication and computation. In this sense, the system expands the experimental toolbox available to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (278+ words) Using this model, the KIT team isolated approximately 510 000 chemical formulae and 3 600 000 concepts from the 221 000 abstracts in their database – an average of 2.3 chemical formulae and 16.3 concepts per abstract. After removing duplicates, these numbers dropped to around 52 000 unique formulae and 1 241 000 unique concepts....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (389+ words) Machine-learning could help us use cosmic muons to peer inside large objects such as nuclear reactors. Developed by researchers in China, the technique is capable of identifying target materials such as uranium even if they are coated with other materials....

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (370+ words) Scientists in the US have unveiled a new machine-learning tool that, they claim, can identify disruptive scientific breakthroughs. They say their method, which assesses how much a paper reshapes its field, is better than other techniques at spotting such disruptions…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (333+ words) At the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Denver, a session on “Navigating the AI revolution: future-proofing your science career” drew in a crowd of early-stage physicists searching for practical career advice. What they received was much more philosophical…...

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