For many researchers, the scientific method is as close to a religion as they'll ever get. The appeal is similar: The scientific method, rigorously followed, provides disciples with a hint of the ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

A new study describes how machine learning tools, run on classical computers, can be used to make predictions about quantum systems and thus help researchers solve some of the trickiest physics and ...

“He has enriched the world with works that will long remain monuments of science.” Reading Nature’s 1873 obituary 1 of the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, you would think economists and ...

Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even ...

The goal is to bring more transparency, openness and rigor to the field, much as the open science movement has done in psychology. Judging by our reporting into a dubious statistical practice in ...

The University of Chicago and France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique have launched a broad and ambitious partnership to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues. The partnership, ...

Scientists have developed a method paving the way to using quantum computers to simulate realistic molecules and complex materials. They tested the method on a quantum simulator and IBM quantum ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

The Program for International Student Assessment showed that 2012 math literacy data of 15-year[1]old students in 21 countries have higher averages than U.S. students. National Inventors Hall of Fame ...

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