By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...