The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. By this fundamental definition, China's ...

A new study by Brown researchers provides evidence that the mechanisms of reasoning between humans and LLMs are similar.

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

Light and matter can remain at separate temperatures even while interacting with each other for long periods, according to ...

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between ...

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have never seen anything quite like it before ...

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science” ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials and batteries all depend on our ability to ...