How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

These new models are specially trained to recognize when an LLM is potentially going off the rails. If they don’t like how an interaction is going, they have the power to stop it. Of course, every ...

Overview: Modern big data tools like Apache Spark and Apache Kafka enable fast processing and real-time streaming for smarter ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Despite its popularity with influencers and digital nomads, Bali is as charming as ever if you know where to look ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The ‘Getting Started’ section is like the quick-start guide for a new gadget. It gives you the most important first steps, ...

If your life story doesn’t include at least one chapter about the donuts at Sluys Poulsbo Bakery in Poulsbo, Washington, then ...

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap.

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Data Reconstruction can be a confusing contract to take on at first in Marathon, but it can be completed fairly easily once you know what to do.