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Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses into the lining of the uterus ...

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a ...

There is more information than ever about what foods promote health and which ones don't. Yet it can be hard to agree on how to convey nutrition information ...

Time moves differently when you’re stuck. Days bleed into weeks, months disappear like smoke, and you look up one day, wondering where it all went. I learned that feeling isn’t actually about time. It ...