Quantum mechanics and information theory have converged to form a robust framework that deepens our understanding of both the microcosmic behaviour of matter and the flow of information. This ...

Algorithmic information theory provides a rigorous framework for quantifying the inherent complexity of data, most notably through the concept of Kolmogorov complexity. This theoretical underpinning ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a widely discussed—and, by some, strongly promoted —“mathematical theory of consciousness” developed over the past 10-20 years or so, mainly by neuroscientist ...

Waves pick up information from their environment through which they propagate. A theory of information carried by waves has now been developed at TU Wien—with astonishing results that can be utilized ...

Few questions are more intriguing than the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. But since aliens are not visiting our planet, and we are not going to their faraway homes any time soon, ...

Gravity, long the sovereign force in the cosmic hierarchy, may be little more than a statistical side effect a byproduct of entropy, not a fundamental interaction. That is the provocative assertion ...