Abstractions blog

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA.

Using inserted genetic circuitry, synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.

A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology.

A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.

Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places.

What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.

The grainy image of a “super-Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s exoplanet observations ramp up.

A new study reveals that bacteria can fight viruses in a surprisingly elegant way that has no known counterpart in more complex life.