From the perfectly symmetrical stone vessels of Saqqara to the massive granite boxes of the Serapeum, some Egyptian artifacts display levels of precision that challenge conventional explanations. This ...

Explore Python Physics Lesson 19 and learn how the Monte Carlo method can approximate Pi with simple yet powerful simulations. In this lesson, we break down the Monte Carlo technique step by step, ...

Historian Philip Decker, mathematician Victor Geadah, computer scientist Sayash Kapoor, and literary scholar Eliana Rozinov are this year’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellows.

Computer scientists Maria Apostolaki, Benjamin Eysenbach, and Yasaman Ghasempour; chemists William Jacobs and Erin Stache; physicist Isobel Ojalvo; and mathematician Bartolomeo Stellato are members of ...

Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

Deep learning is increasingly used in financial modeling, but its lack of transparency raises risks. Using the well-known Heston option pricing model as a benchmark, researchers show that global ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

Researchers have shown that the striking beauty of tiling patterns is closely tied to powerful mathematical methods for solving complex problems. Their work reveals how repeating geometric reflections ...

Imaging buried objects Left: artistic impression of metal spheres buried in small glass beads; centre: conventional ultrasound image; right: the new technology can precisely determine the positions of ...