Head-bobbing in Atlantic Puffins is more than a charming gesture. It can signal courtship rituals or serve as a display of territorial defense. Discover the fascinating behavioral insights behind this ...

The files are gradually revealing how he leveraged his fortune and connections to operate a sprawling sex trafficking network that targeted dozens of underage girls over a decade.

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A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

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AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.