Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up in southern India with almost no formal education, but his mind never stopped creating mathematics. Using nothing but a single outdated textbook, he taught himself advanced ...

U.S. elections are sending a consistent message: Americans are deeply frustrated with their government’s inability to solve problems.

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom! Bound states of hydrogen atom correspond to states of a massless quantum particle ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

This is a story about Chick-fil-A and solving problems—one that seemed pretty tough to tackle. It started when Chick-fil-A announced plans last year to open its first restaurant in Asia. I wondered ...

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This blog post is the second in our Neural Super Sampling (NSS) series. The post explores why we introduced NSS and explains its architecture, training, and inference components. In August 2025, we ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

There is little debate that AI will revolutionize working practices, but there is less agreement about the best way to exploit this transformation. While 90% of CIOs are piloting AI or investing in ...