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A museum drawer of songbird skeletons does not look like a story. It looks like a lot of small, pale, similar bones. Sparrows, finches, warblers, thrushes: the group biologists call Passeriformes…
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…
Salt marsh area along China's coast has grown on net in recent decades, and the organic carbon held in the topsoil under those marshes rose overall with it, according to a national mapping study…
Pictures made by AI image generators trained on large datasets often cannot be traced back to any individual training image, according to a study published Aug. 18 in Nature Communications by Zheng…
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,…
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…
The Fire Weather Index has a quiet dependency that trips up almost everyone who tries to use it in a climate model. To do the arithmetic the way it was designed, you need the temperature, humidity,…
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…
On a night in April 2025, something bright tore across the sky over the Adriatic. To the few people who looked up in time, it was a fireball: a fragment of interplanetary rock burning through the…
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…
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…