The discovery of deterministic chaos—the aperiodic deterministic dynamics of a nonlinear system demonstrating sensitivity to initial conditions—has led to a major paradigm shift, overthrowing two ...

This insatiable demand for data is what led to the need for JEDEC to introduce the JESD204 standard for a high-speed serial link between data converters and logic devices. The “B” revision of the ...

Quantum mechanics is full of strange, paradoxical behavior. Now a small group of physicists think a more fundamental theory can make these paradoxes vanish. One of the great triumphs of modern science ...

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

Is nature inherently random? According to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, it is, explaining why we can’t precisely predict the motions of single particles. In the famous double-slit ...

Our last Insights puzzle explored how a smooth, random distribution of objects arises in a classic, deterministic machine called a Galton board or bean machine. We examined the inner workings of this ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Many clock-recovery circuits produce a repetitive, predictable jitter. This effect is particularly noticeable in cheesy clock-multiplier circuits and poorly equalized data-recovery units. The name for ...