A controversial new paper argues that universes with dark energy profiles like ours do not exist in the “landscape” of universes allowed by string theory. On June 25 ... researchers like Vafa have ...

String theory ... swept computer science—neural networks, which adjust huge grids of numbers until their values can stand in for some unknown function. Neural networks found functions that ...

The mystery surrounding a cryptic string-based communication system used by ancient Incan administrators may at last be unravelling, thanks to computer ... that have been found, most date from ...