Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less ...

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

Artificial intelligence is largely a numbers game. When deep neural networks, a form of AI that learns to discern patterns in data, began surpassing traditional algorithms 10 years ago, it was because ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. Far from being solo ...