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A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...
The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study ...
Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into ...
The work demonstrates the important role of experimentation and play in research mathematics. It also has potential practical applications, such as in the design of self-righting spacecraft. “I didn’t ...
This time, along with Fermi, a mountaintop observatory called HAWC (for High-Altitude Water Cherenkov experiment) will be taking data. HAWC detects gamma rays at higher frequencies than Fermi, which ...
A number of independent groups appear to have done just that. They may have woven the second law out of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics — which, some suspect, have directionality and ...
Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius ...