Paris Hilton did not just buy a $63 million Beverly Hills mansion and call it a day. Despite a fortune that could have ...

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation by Patty Wellborn, University of British Columbia edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes Credit: AI ...

Scientists have engineered a material that behaves in reverse — shrinking when pulled instead of stretching. This breakthrough could lead to new designs for flexible robots, medical devices, and space ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...