Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

A newly derived “q-desic” equation suggests that quantum effects may subtly alter particle trajectories across the universe.

Turbocharged by social media, a long-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory is back and helping fuel the sharp rise in anti-Jewish sentiment. What once lived on the fringes of the internet now widely ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader is dead, and I am glad. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a vicious and sadistic ruler who led a regime stuffed with vicious and sadistic men. But his long-overdue assassination at the ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Discover how monetary theory influences economic activity through money supply changes, with insights on central bank ...

Abstract: We formulate em algorithm in the framework of Bregman divergence, which is a general problem setting of information geometry. That is, we address the minimization problem of the Bregman ...

In a truly free market, there is no class conflict. In the presence of the state, however, things are different because various groups jockey with each other to ...

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

Reservoir computing is a promising machine learning-based approach for the analysis of data that changes over time, such as weather patterns, recorded speech or stock market trends. Classical ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.