String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide testable predictions and required ten dimensions ...

In this season of commencement addresses, country music singer Eric Church brought down the house May 9 with his incredibly thought-provoking speech summing up the “six strings of life.” Church ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should heal and repair the wounds of racial difference as ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

After 12 years leading Utah-based techbio company Recursion, CEO Chris Gibson is stepping down. Recursion’s R&D head and Chief Commercial Officer Najat Khan will become CEO effective Jan. 1. Gibson co ...

Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary have unveiled the latest product of their nearly four-year artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration, a whole-genome map of specialized ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...