Mitigating the adverse effects of climate change requires us, globally, to speed up the energy transition: to decarbonize energy supply while maintaining the security of supply and the affordability ...

In a fascinating development, researchers have successfully integrated a large language model (LLM) into a robot vacuum, ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

One of the boldest, most breathless claims being made about artificial intelligence tools is that they have “emergent properties” — impressive abilities gained by these programs that they were ...

Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the ...

Generate three principles of emergent group behavior. Ask students what kind of simple rules the individual animals mentioned in Question 1 might be following as they gather in their groups. What does ...

The technology underlying ChatGPT may gain a capability to cause mayhem. The wildly popular program has been cited as offering textual responses that are "disturbing," but on the horizon is an ability ...

Great discoveries lie at the edge of chaos, and nature provides perhaps the best inspiration for finding order in anarchy. Fish school, birds flock, fireflies sync and ants colonize. This type of ...

As a physicist I was taught to boil down every complex problem to its most basic, simple, and solvable elements. It was a strategy I totally embraced. While this reductio ad absurdum approach has made ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...