A team of computer scientists and nuclear physicists is developing a memory management framework to help speed up physics calculations on supercomputers. This diagram shows the optimizations made by ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi) – rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits – in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

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Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment — the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles — on a quantum computer 1. If the team can scale it ...

Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Rethinking nuclear for a greener planet" Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and chief executive of Danish start ...

Physicists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that pure mathematical formulae used to calculate the value of pi 100 years ago by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan has ...