Anthropic illustrates how researchers from diverse fields are applying Claude in scientific work, ranging from genome analysis to the study of quantum systems.
Lab
When Darkness Births Light: How Invisible Particles Created Giants of the Cosmic Abyss
Physics & Space • Astrophysics
Discover how ghostly axions – particles of dark matter – could have birthed supermassive black holes at the very dawn of time, when the Universe was still an infant.
An exploration of how changing weights reveals a remarkable boundary where mathematical structures transition from chaos to order, much like water transforming into ice.
Lab
When a System Loses Its Memory: Why Small Changes Can't Always Hide the Whole Picture
Mathematics & Statistics
How mathematicians showed that infinite-dimensional systems retain the ability to be observed even after perturbations – and why this matters for everything from MRI to the climate.
Berkeley Lab has deployed an AI copilot that accelerates the tuning of X-ray lasers and makes particle accelerator operations more accessible to researchers.
Lab
How to Turn Infinity into a Grid: Discretization of the Sine-Gordon Equation
Physics & Space • Nonlinear Sciences
We explain how mathematicians learn to translate continuous waves into the discrete language of computers while preserving all the beauty of soliton physics.
Lab
Quantum Statistics vs. Supersymmetry: Deriving the Atiyah-Singer Theorem Without Leaving Reality
Physics & Space • Mathematical Physics
The Atiyah-Singer theorem has traditionally been derived via supersymmetry. We show that ordinary quantum statistics does the job just as well – and that changes everything.
Radio telescopes generate petabytes of data, but what if most of it can be predicted mathematically? This is the story of how to compress cosmic signals losslessly.
NeuroBlog
Why You Aren't in the Next Room Yet: Quantum Mechanics vs. Your Forehead
Science & Technology • Physics
We figure out why the Pauli exclusion principle won't let you walk through a wall – even though atoms are 99.9% empty space – and what angry electrons have to do with it.