The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new...
These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules...
This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
In 2023, Domokos—along with his graduate students Gergő Almádi and Krisztina Regős, and Robert...
Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents...
For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time...
How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was...
Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in...
A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of...
A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving...
Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The...
