Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes ...

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held ...

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the ...

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

Bacteria are in, around and all over us. They thrive in almost every corner of the planet, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to high up in the clouds, to the crevices of your ears, mouth, nose and gut.

How do you construct a perfect machine out of imperfect parts? That’s the central challenge for researchers building quantum computers. The trouble is that their elementary building blocks, called ...

Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone. Biologists used ...

While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. Before he became a decorated pioneer of artificial intelligence, ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.