Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

World models are the building blocks to the next era of physical AI -- and a future in which AI is more firmly rooted in our reality.

It’s not the first time this has happened. In November, the NWS office in Rapid City, South Dakota, posted a wind map to X ...

Randall Morck of the Alberta School of Business says economists too often regard people as "dynamic, stochastic optimization ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

How much does it matter where you are born, or whether you are heavy or light, if you are a house sparrow? Researcher Kenneth ...

If there’s one theme that defines AI in 2025, it’s acceleration. In fact, the pace of advancement hasn’t just increased, but grown exponentially. This year, the industry saw tasks become possible that ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

A new study digs into why modern AI models stumble over multi-digit multiplication and what kind of training finally makes ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

The video game business is heading toward a big change as new artificial intelligence systems learn to build interactive 3D spaces. Tech companies say these tools could transform how games get made.