Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are ...

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are ...

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories.

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our ...

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his ...

Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow.

I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, ...

In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I decided to just ignore it. But I couldn’t ...

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. You might imagine that the DNA in your cells has a simple ...