Scientific American

AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...
Scientific American

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel prize at 71

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...
Nature

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...
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Chasing Pi to infinity: 314 trillion digits calculated in a 110-day computing marathon

Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The ...