A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...

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For more than a decade, MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has used artificial intelligence to create new materials. As the technology ...

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Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

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