Artificial intelligence for formal mathematical reasoning startup Harmonic AI Inc. announced today that it has raised $120 million in new funding on a $1.45 billion valuation. The funding is intended ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

“Math is truth,” says Mark Hamill’s aged patriarch, Albie Krantz, in Mike Flanagan’s recent adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck. “It’s used in everything. In every job. In every facet of ...

The inventory of homes for sale is finally rising. Buyers aren’t interested. The U.S. housing market had nearly a half million more sellers than buyers in April, the biggest such gap on record in ...

Researchers have mathematically elucidated how the presence of crystals and gas bubbles in magma affects the propagation of seismic P-waves. A novel equation was derived to describe the travel of ...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...