An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

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 ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...