Are we here by design, chance, or selection bias? The Anthropic Principle, fine-tuning, doomsday math, and Boltzmann brains.

PsiQuantum announced today that the company is collaborating with Airbus, Europe's largest aeronautics and space company, to advance applications in aerospace for fault-tolerant quantum computers.

"He went way above budget to get the extra height for the walls, while all the townspeople were mad about the tax expenditure waste. Only one person died in 2011 — a fisherman who went out to check on ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping your body makes you feel cold. Insulation fights conduction by trapping air ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating the flow of fluids and heat, making it lighter and more stable than the state ...

The Boltzmann Brain paradox questions whether reality itself is an illusion created by a single self-aware entity. Trump Revokes TPS, Citing Fraud Concerns 'Satanist' actor jailed for extreme material ...

In March 2025, mathematicians Yu Deng, Zaher Hani, and Xiao Ma of the University of Chicago published a paper on the unpeer-reviewed paper repository arXiv, claiming to have solved Hilbert's Sixth ...

Why it matters: Silicon transistors are great, but just like any other object in the physical world, they are held back by a few limitations. The laws of physics put a bottleneck on performance and ...

The story so far: On October 8, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize for physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. A neural network is a computational model consisting of layers of interconnected neurons. Like the neurons in your ...