There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...

Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.

It’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated by artificial intelligence, according to a study that put AI-detecting tools to the test. The authors fed the original ...

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...