It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly increasing. But, life’s inherent chemical makeup has been hacking the disorder ...

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In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of ...

Objective This prospective longitudinal study of a general population sample investigates whether maternal experience of out-of-home care (OHC) constitutes an independent risk factor for the ...

A new theory suggests gravity could possibly be the result of entropy—which would mean everything in the universe would fall ...

As a crop of designers settle into new roles, how they interact with tech teams, and their stance on AI’s role in creativity, ...

Researchers have developed a new class of magnets that does not require rare earths and platinum, yet offers high magnetic ...

Abstract: In information security, random number quality is closely related to cryptographic system security; moreover, random number quality depends on the corresponding entropy source quality.