Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...

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Properties that remain unchanged when materials are stretched or bent, which are broadly referred to as topological ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

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Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

PHOENIX — A special team named to find out why 6,554 child-abuse cases went uninvestigated concluded Friday there was a “systemic failure, a lack of accountability and transparency and bad ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.