MathematicsNovember 22, 2024
Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
AI-human collaboration could possibly achieve superhuman greatness in mathematics
Stories by Conor Purcell
Conor Purcell is a science journalist who writes on science and its role in society and culture. He has a Ph.D. in earth science and was a 2019 journalist in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Germany. He can be found on LinkedIn, and some of his other articles are at https://cppurcell.tumblr.com
Dark EnergyOctober 28, 2021
Could Gravity’s Quantum Origins Explain Dark Energy?
A potentially transformative theoretical study links a new model of quantum gravity with the universe’s bizarrely accelerating rate of expansion
Climate ChangeNovember 13, 2019
A Sharper View of the World’s Oceans
Models of the behavior of the oceans with higher spatial resolution could lead to more accurate climate predictions
Space & PhysicsJuly 8, 2019
Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Find Exoplanets, Too
Although meant to study merging supermassive black holes, the European Space Agency’s LISA mission might also discover hundreds of worlds around white dwarf stars