An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Prediction of crystal structures of organic molecules is a critical task in many industries, especially in pharmaceuticals ...

Somewhere in the middle of If on a winter’s night a traveller (1979), Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923-September 19, 1985) writes something quietly profound about our relationship with words: “It is ...

A research team has developed a powerful computational tool—the Algorithmic Root Trait (ART) extraction method—that can “see” beyond human perception to uncover hidden features in plant roots.

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...