Computer scientists develop a new AI tool that rivals AlphaFold 3 in mapping RNA

The same family of artificial intelligence that powers today's image generators is now being aimed at one of biology's ...
Scientific American

The math behind the universe's symmetry

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

Quantum computer simulates hadronization, reproducing string breaking with 104 qubits

By remotely accessing an IBM quantum computer, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully ...
Astronomy

July 5, 1687: Newton’s Principia is published

Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had developed the foundational ideas for the work as early as 1666, when an outbreak of ...
The New York Times

Hard Fork

What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models. By Kevin RooseCasey NewtonWhitney JonesRachel CohnVjeran PavicAlyssa ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Man Who Swam the Full Length of the Mississippi River

Fred Newton promotes his record-breaking journey. Courtesy of the Newton Family The morning of July 6, 1930, Fred Newton waded into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis and started swimming. He told ...