According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because those cohabiting birds are the protagonists of a deceptively ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. Researchers got ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.