The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...