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 ...

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 ...

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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