The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Results from neural networks support the idea that brains are “prediction machines” — and that they work that way to conserve energy.

Hybrids, once treated as biological misfits, play a vital role in the evolution of many animal species. Now conservationists are trying to reconcile that truth with policies.

The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach.