Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

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 ...