Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far less training data and compute than much larger systems.

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

Design engineers can use AI-driven simulation to overcome bottlenecks and accelerate materials discovery with hybrid workflow ...

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

Researchers wonder whether the dreaming state might be doing more than you realize.

President Donald Trump, in a brief phone call with POLITICO, cast himself as the savior for a United Nations in danger of financial collapse, touting his ability to get members to pay unpaid dues. But ...

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 race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Systems biology modeling is entering a new phase. For decades, computational models—ODE and PDE systems, stochastic simulations, constraint-based networks, ...