For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...

For decades, scientists have searched for clues to how life first emerged on Earth. Many theories focus on simple molecules reacting in water or on fragile protocells drifting in ancient seas. A new ...

Shifting in the global AI race is happening in open-source software. China’s open-weight LLMs is creating a form of ...

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Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...