Articles by

Stephen Ornes

See how fractals forever changed math and science

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined...

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit...

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so...