When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of “a group of young people playing a game of Frisbee,” artificial ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1946, New applications of the renormalization group in nuclear, particle and condensed matter physics (13 ...

In the 1940s, trailblazing physicists stumbled upon the next layer of reality. Particles were out, and fields — expansive, undulating entities that fill space like an ocean — were in. One ripple in a ...

New research suggests physicists, computers and brains employ the same procedure to tease out important features from among other irrelevant bits of data. When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize ...

Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes — battery-operated nicotine-delivery devices that mimic the look and feel of smoking by vaporizing a liquid solution such as propylene glycol — appeared in ...