Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations

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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS   Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations By CHARLIE WOOD A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, researchers have found a slew of new candidates in simpler versions of the problem. Read the article EPIGENETICS   How Dad's Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA By IVAN AMATO Research into how a father's choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. Read the article ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality By BEN BRUBAKER Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular "Platonic" way to represent the world. Read the article EXPLAINERS   In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything By GEORGE MUSSER Try as they might, scientists can't truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what "zero-point energy" really means is up for interpretation. Read the article THE QUANTA PODCAST   AI Filters Will Always Have Holes Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL with MICHAEL MOYER Cryptographers have shown how the defensive filters put around language models can be subverted by well-studied cryptographic tools. Quanta executive editor Michael Moyer tells Samir Patel about the findings and implications of this new work. Listen (Apple) | Listen (Spotify) Read the article Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2025 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010