Conor Feehly is a science writer based in New Zealand. He covers topics ranging from astronomy to neuroscience.

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

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Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may ...

How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.

About the author Charlie Wood is a staff writer covering physics at Quanta Magazine.His articles about advances in the physical sciences both on and off the planet have appeared in Popular Science, ...