To accelerate scientific discovery without spending weeks configuring infrastructure or hand-tuning legacy code, high-performance computing (HPC) teams need purpose-built hardware and AI-driven ...

The multicellular stage is getting more complete for the open source evolution sim Thrive, with version 1.7 out now.

Every digital camera faces a hard physical ceiling: the smallest detail it can record is set by the size of its pixels. Once light has been funneled into a single photosensitive square, everything ...

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, ...

Evolutionary algorithms have long been the workhorses of optimization, mimicking the blunt logic of natural selection to grind out solutions to problems that defeat conventional mathematics. But a ...

Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” These one-way genetic ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...