If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.

To see how one cube can pass through another, imagine holding a cube over a table and examining its shadow (assuming it’s ...

Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental ...

The recent paper studies algorithmic pricing through the lens of game theory, an interdisciplinary field at the border of ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development. In March, a group of ...