AI framework could speed battery, combustion and materials research by automating simulations

Computers have made it easier than ever before to design the perfect material for a given problem: Scientists can create a ...

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool in medicine but there are cautions

Artificial intelligence is an important advance in computer technology. Hopefully, its use in medicine will make things ...

This book reveals how an AI winter, caused by poor machine translation, nearly killed the technology

We are currently in the throes of an AI renaissance – but it hasn’t always been that way. AI hasn’t advanced in a single, ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...
Scientific American

How math helped the Allies win World War II

During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

'Check your ingredients': A new blueprint for using Fermi's 'Golden Rule'

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's ...
Nature

Aims and scope

Scientific Data is an open access journal dedicated to data, publishing descriptions of research datasets and articles on research data sharing from all areas of natural sciences, medicine, ...