Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we're prone to seeing patterns where they don't actually exist. This behavior is so common there's ...

Scientists have developed a new AI method that can work backward from patterns to uncover the hidden processes driving them.

A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags known as methyl groups turn genes on and off and ...

Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Extreme weather including droughts and flash floods looming as forecasters say powerful heating is underway in the Pacific ...

Protein language models are accelerating biotech but largely operate as black boxes. In Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) publish the most ...

Anthropic has traced Claude's pre-release blackmail behaviour to internet text portraying AI as evil and self-preserving.

Dr. Ainara Ballesteros is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environment and Marine Science ...

The Museum of Illusions in Denver has turned the simple act of seeing into an extreme sport where nobody can be trusted, ...

Brandon Patterson’s wildest dream for the brain-computer interface is to someday be able to drive his wheelchair with his ...