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Physicist Tobias Heindel uses single quantas of light to make the future internet safer / Insights into current research Prof Tobias Heindel from the Department for Quantum Technology at the Faculty

Researchers from The University of Manchester have contributed to a new global benchmark designed to measure the limits of today's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance of finding the system in any of its possible states.

IBM and the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics at the University of Bonn have maintained a close and productive collaboration since 1987.

New, smart computational models can quickly and efficiently analyze animal behavior. African wildlife rangers have recently started using drones to protect animals from poachers.

Rubik's cubes are great for fun, fast-paced problem solving, but they also have a rich mathematical structure involving ideas of symmetry and connectivity.

Six researchers from the University of Twente, Marcello Carioni (EEMCS), Andrea Continella (EEMCS), Gregor Gantner (EEMCS external), Lonneke Lenferink (BMS), Gaurav Rattan (EEMCS), and Nicola Strisci

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on increasingly critical roles - from managing power grids to piloting autonomous vehicles - making sure these systems are safe has never been more important.

A research team from five Spanish universities, including the University of Valencia (UV), has developed a new statistical methodology that makes it possible to select relevant variables even when information is incomplete.

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds who show strong mathematical ability at primary school don't progress at the same rate as their equally skilled but more advantaged peers, finds a UCL study, raising social mobility concerns, particularly among underprivileged white boys.

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge.

An analysis of 15,576 fires in the Netherlands shows that the longer it takes the fire brigade to arrive on the scene, the greater the damage.

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. Visiting Professor 2025-2026: From January 5 to January 23, 2026, and from February 3 to February 13, 2026.

During her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rossana Bettoni investigated how cells in an embryo know exactly what they should become.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. Five of them are scientists from TU Delft.

Professor of Computer Science at "Kahlert School of Computing" at the University of Utah Visiting professor 2025-2026 from November 1 to November 30 2025 Inviting professor: Nicolas Trotignon Biograp

Professor of Computer Science at "Kahlert School of Computing" at the University of Utah Invited professor 2025-2026 from November 1 to November 30 2025 Inviting professor: Nicolas Trotignon Biograph

Researchers have developed a new way to design complex, curved three-dimensional shapes using flat materials such as paper, aluminum sheets or plastic, combining creative thinking with a new computational algorithm. Have you ever rolled a piece of paper into a cylinder, or tried to wrap aluminum foil around an object without making it crumple? Imagine being able to simply turn a piece of flat material into beautiful, strong furniture, lighting or even the buildings and bridges of the future.

Winner of the CADE ATP System Competition and recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award For the first time in the history of the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC), a single automated theorem prover has achieved a clean sweep: VAMPIRE won all'eight competition divisions at CASC-30.

A new laboratory experiment uses a water vortex to investigate how planets form from material in protoplanetary gas and dust disks To the point Simple laboratory model for cosmic flows developed: A water tornado enables a realistic simulation of the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs.

Non-invasive monitoring of fetal brain health, using mathematics to design transport systems that serve broader society, and dynamic home energy management systems are among the projects to receive NWO funding.

At any one time, most people are pursuing multiple goals: answering email, doing the laundry, choosing how to invest retirement savings, helping a child with their math homework.

The 2025 European Women's Football Championship kicks off tomorrow, Wednesday, in Switzerland. The Spanish national team is favored to take home the trophy in the three-week tournament.

Nine outstanding Cambridge scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.