The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has detected galaxy pairs aligning along coherent filaments spanning several billion ...

NASA and Rice University launch an open-source simulator that lets researchers develop and test spacecraft robots in a ...

Does thinking have first principles? A new discovery about artificial intelligence raises some interesting questions.

First principles thinking helps leaders solve the right problems. Insights from Walter Isaacson and four experts reveal what ...

It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case. Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, ...

We explore the performance limits of monolayer InSe n-type and p-type FETs by means of first-principle simulations of carrier transport in nanoscale devices. We evaluate the impact on device ...

Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are really adventurous, repurposed a car ...

It’s been over a decade since the original release of The Talos Principle, Croteam’s massively successful and critically acclaimed first person puzzle game. While the gameplay of the original and the ...

Abstract: We report parameter-free first principle atomistic simulations of quantum transport in Si nanochannels under uniaxial strain. Our model is based on the density functional theory (DFT) ...

From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...