When you get as many things going wrong as there are right now, you do not think about opportunity; you think about safety. I get that. We have the most uncertain of times in the Mideast after the U.S ...

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is the best theory scientists have to explain how the universe works on subatomic ...

As AI models become more capable and more specialised, the question for users is no longer whether to use AI, but which AI to trust for a given task. Perplexity’s latest product update, called Model ...

When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing story about numbers.

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

For the poorest shoppers, access to healthy food is scarce. Affected areas are caught in a vicious circle of reduced choice and more fast food. What steps need to be taken?

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 ...

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

To ensure that our most advanced systems do not become our Achilles’ heel, securing AI supply chains must be a focus for both users and policy makers.

The fashion industry can look, from the outside, like an irresistibly glamorous, but impenetrable, business. Because I’ve spent years reporting on it, I’m often approached by bewildered parents who ...

When companies focus on practical, user-centered implementation, AI can stop being an experiment and start having a real impact.

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