The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Theoretical computer scientists are always probing the relationship of space (memory) and time. For 50 years, experts knew that a calculation of X steps required X/log X memory slots, but a new study ...

Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. But sometimes physics ...

Space travel, exploration, and observation involve some of the most complex and dangerous scientific and technical operations ever carried out. This means that it tends to throw up the kinds of ...

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without human interference.

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

Other than the growth mindset, I argue that five other beliefs are particularly important to promote in classrooms to help ...

Plenty of video games take us to outer space, but only the best space RPGs let you chart your own odyssey through the stars. There are loads of space games out there these days spanning all kinds of ...