Mind’s AI system, AlphaProof, provided Lean with proofs of three of the competition’s problems. A year later, four AI systems performed at the level of a gold medalist. However, problems posed at the ...

The Library of Alexandria became the ancient world’s most famous symbol of lost knowledge, but its disappearance was not a single simple disaster. Its fate raises the question of how much literature, ...

Not since Socrates complained that the written word might make people lazy about remembering things has there been such an outpouring of academic angst against a new technology. In an open letter ...

Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence. By Siobhan Roberts In July, Jacob Tsimerman, a ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation converts biological samples into adapter-flanked, size-selected fragment populations that an instrument can amplify and sequence. NGS platforms do ...

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathematical models that ...

Researchers have identified a previously unrecognised mathematical property that explains why one of evolutionary biology's most widely used statistical models can produce convincing but incorrect ...

CalcLib is a Java-based numerical calculus library designed to perform differentiation, integration, and natural logarithm computations on generic numeric data. Rather than hard-coding calculations ...

You spent years studying string theory, a field at the intersection of mathematics and physics. But in 2017 your career pivoted. How did that happen? At that time, there was a new trend in science.

The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single line of text buried inside a software update. Earlier this ...

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