"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat," says Yann LeCun, one of the ...

A new active-inference account reframes attachment styles as calibrated models of the world—with consequences for how we ...

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control ...

On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...

A team of engineers at Rice University and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that ...

Spending the bulk of my adult life as a minister and pastor of churches, one Sunday I always somewhat feared was Father’s Day ...

AMD and Intel have now published a full technical specification for ACE — AI Compute Extensions — the most significant overhaul to x86 AI compute in the architecture's history, co-authored by eight ...

Tensordyne says logarithmic computing could reduce AI inference costs and power demands, offering an alternative to conventional chip designs.

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Researchers at ExCELLS derive a coupled transport model that simultaneously reconstructs refractive-index fluctuations and attenuation coefficients without weak-absorption approximations, and ...

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...