The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

Janna Levin is the director of sciences and chair of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. She is also the Claire Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University.

A new proof has debunked a conspiracy that mathematicians feared might haunt the number line. In doing so, it has given them another set of tools for understanding arithmetic’s fundamental building ...