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Server racks do not usually need plumbing. The one at the National University of Singapore, demonstrated to guests on 6 August 2026 and announced on 17 August, has it in every unit: pumps, filters, a…
The pitch for AI agent teams is intuitive, which is part of why it sells so well. If one language model can draft an answer, surely two can catch each other's mistakes, and a whole committee of them…
Ask a structure-prediction model to work out how two molecules fit together, and much of what happens next is closer to guesswork than most people assume. The model generates a crowd of candidate…
Anyone who has tried to answer a serious biomedical question knows the problem is rarely a shortage of information. It is that the information sits in too many places at once: one database for genes,…
Most humanoid robots are designed in the order you would expect. First, the engineers settle the body: the length of the limbs, where the motors sit, and how much each joint can push. Only then does…
Predicting what a system will do next is one problem. Predicting the moment it stops behaving the way it used to is a much harder one, and for most of the systems scientists care about, the more…
Ask two neuroscientists to point to the same spot in the human brain and you may get two different answers. One is looking at a stained tissue slice under a microscope, counting cell layers a…
When a person speaks, the face gives the game away. A hard "b" presses the lips shut. A wide vowel drops the jaw. Surprise lifts the brows a beat before the word lands. We read those correspondences…
Ask someone to memorize a shopping list and then say it back in any order, and a few reliable habits show up. People tend to blurt out the last few items first. They often start strong on the first…
Picture an ant trying to walk a trail while a herd of elephants stampedes down the same path. That is roughly the problem Prem Kumar and his group at Northwestern set themselves, and the ant,…
Ask a person to drive from a friend's house to a restaurant they've never visited, in a city they know only in patches, and something quietly remarkable happens. They don't consult a lookup table of…
Ask a chatbot for a proof and you brace for a confident, wrong answer. So there is a certain irony in what a team of four researchers reported this week: they asked a language model to help with a…