Imagine you’re on a hill, flying a kite, and someone asks you to describe exactly what the kite is doing. “It’s over to the right, just above the treeline,” you might say, “and the wind is making it ...

Researchers have successfully developed artificial intelligence technology that can extract hidden equations of motion from regular observational data and create a model that is faithful to the laws ...

In 2017, Roger Guimerà and Marta Sales-Pardo discovered a cause of cell division, the process driving the growth of living beings. But they couldn’t immediately reveal how they learned the answer. The ...

They have what’s called symmetry. Although the formulation of the equations will look very different if people make different choices, their content will be the same. And only very special equations ...