Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends a warning about unusual activity on an account, or a weather app predicts ...

It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and reshaping our understanding of how life evolves. The newly emerging Extended Evolutionary ...

You’ve probably seen an artificial intelligence system go off track. You ask for a video of a dog, and as the dog runs behind the love seat, its collar disappears. Then, as the camera pans back, the ...

Editor’s note (May 19th 2025): On May 16th, MIT said that Aidan Toner-Rodgers was no longer in the MIT PhD program. The university “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the ...

On May 13th OpenAI unveiled its latest model, GPT-4o. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, called it the “future of interaction between ourselves and the machines”, because users will ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...