Archive

The way you learned to multiply works, but computers employ a faster algorithm.

After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Maintaining perfect stability through negative feedback is a basic element of electrical circuitry, but it’s been a mystery how cells could do it — until now.

In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

Origin-of-life researchers have usually studied the potential of pure starting materials, but messy mixtures of chemicals may kick-start life more effectively.

A giant star’s death throes may offer the first evidence of a pair-instability supernova, and a glimpse of the first stars in the universe.

A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade.

Clues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation.

There are many different ways to think about probability. Quantum mechanics embodies them all.