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At CES 2026, the big maker of mobile chips teased details—and some benchmarks—for its new mainstream Snapdragon processor ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...

AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic have long focused on building tools that can write code that will speed up software ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...