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After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity.

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.