Occam’s razor is the principle that, all else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more complex ones. This principle is thought to guide human decision-making, but the nature of ...
Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...
There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...
Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Policy uncertainty, including on global trade and central bank independence, and overall geopolitical risk topped the list of financial stability concerns in a new ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs is forcing retailers to pull back or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers at stores and ...
On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided ...
The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work on showing how quantum particles can mysteriously tunnel through matter, a process that ...