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 ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

And while no one knows for sure whether it can be reached, researchers continue to make progress in that direction. A paper posted in October comes the closest yet, describing the fastest-ever method ...

In her mind’s eye, she can see the proteins, each a ribbon of amino acids folded around itself. BMAL1 has a kind of waist that CLOCK clasps like a dancer.

But this supposed knowledge isn’t anything like what we’d find in a dictionary. Instead, it’s more like a map. If you imagine every embedding as a set of coordinates on a high-dimensional map shared ...

Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable.

A New Paradox of Black Holes. In the mid-20th century, black holes were mysterious because of their “singularity” at their core, a place where infalling matter becomes infinitely compacted, gravity ...

“There are various indications that there could be a better way of thinking about QFT,” said Nathan Seiberg, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study.“It feels like it’s an animal you can touch ...

I n 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

The findings of one study, published last fall, suggest that the last common ancestor of yeast and humans — the first eukaryote, or cell bearing a nucleus and mitochondria — already had the tools ...