Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

Cellular automata are a set of rules followed to form different patterns. (i.e. The Chaos Game) There is no one fixed set of rules to form all patterns, there can be infinitely many. The evolution of ...