Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

During surgery to correct an abnormal heartbeat, doctors rely on a mix of imaging and inference. Still, many critical details remain hidden. At RIT, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers want to ...

The theme for this year’s preservation week is Is This Thing On?: Preserving Memory and Building Archives and focuses on ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

University spin-out firms offer physicists the chance to apply their knowledge in a commercial setting, but the path to success for founders and their employees has its ups and downs, as Margaret ...

Get your brain working: How many answers can you get? (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Jackie Niam) To mark Physics World’s first AI in Medical Physics Week, we’ve put together a short quiz to see how much you ...

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story window. If a cat is simply a mechanical system ...

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