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Professor Hod Lipson (left) and graduate student Michael Schmidt adjust a double pendulum. Reflectors on the pendulum enable motion-tracking software to record position and velocity as the pendulum swings. From this a new computer algorithm can derive equations of motion. (Credit: Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography)
CORNELL (US)—If only Isaac Newton could have gotten his hands on a supercomputer and a new algorithm developed by Cornell University researchers. He could have skipped the apples altogether. The new method helps computers find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. Continue…
