When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of “a group of young people playing a game of Frisbee,” artificial ...

In the 1940s, trailblazing physicists stumbled upon the next layer of reality. Particles were out, and fields — expansive, undulating entities that fill space like an ocean — were in. One ripple in a ...

New research suggests physicists, computers and brains employ the same procedure to tease out important features from among other irrelevant bits of data. When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1946, New applications of the renormalization group in nuclear, particle and condensed matter physics (13 ...