The wave of big language models has carried with it a lot of bravado about what machines can do—and how quickly they can do it. But in classrooms and law offices alike, a quieter question has been gathering steam: can artificial intelligences judge complex, open‑ended work the way humans do? A team from Maritaca AI…
The study of groups acting on spaces isn’t just about abstract symbols dancing on a chalkboard. It’s about how a collection of elements can move, stretch, and rearrange geometric worlds in ways that reveal the group’s hidden personality. When those spaces are hyperbolic — spaces with negative curvature that bend and zoom in on the…
The world of data is hardly a single, tidy map. It looks more like a constellation: nodes representing people, institutions, or transactions, connected by threads that carry information, risk, or influence. In many real networks those threads aren’t evenly friendly. Some neighborhoods tilt toward similarity, while others are built on cross currents. That pattern, where…
Graphs are the scuffed, sprawling maps of the modern information era. They stitch together people, papers, products, and places with threads that can carry tone, time, and intention. But the real world isn’t tidy. It throws curveballs in the form of out-of-distribution, or OOD, nodes—points that don’t quite fit the patterns the model was trained…
The world of pure math often feels like a high-stakes game of logic played on an abstract board. The latest work from Dylan King of Caltech, Simón Piga of the University of Hamburg, Marcelo Sales of UC Irvine, and Bjarne Schülke of the Institute for Basic Science in Korea dives into a thorny corner of…
When your heart races at the sight of a looming deadline, or your palms sweat during a tense meeting, your body is marching to the unwelcome drumbeat of autonomic arousal. Scientists have long known that stress triggers a cascade inside us—the sympathetic alarm bells ring, the heart rate tightens, and tiny signals ripple through the…
Dubbing that adapts voice to every scene’s heartbeat. When you press play on a movie, your ears expect voices to feel like they were born in the moment: every line, every breath, finely tuned to the mood and the camera’s rhythm. Dubbing, in practice, is a high‑wire act: you must preserve the actor’s identity while…
In the wake of recent whispers from the cosmos, a chorus of pulsars has begun to reveal a faint, pervasive hum: a stochastic gravitational wave background that permeates the universe in the nanohertz range. It’s not a single loud note but a whole orchestra of gravitational waves, each source lending its subtle tremor to the…
In the heart of CERN’s sprawling accelerator complex, protons collide with ferocity, and the universe reveals its tiniest secrets in flashes of light and spray of particles. The LHCb experiment isn’t chasing the famous Higgs particle this time; it’s listening for whispers from quarks—the fundamental building blocks of matter—that rarely survive long enough to become…
In a world where a satellite can beam VPN-level upgrades to a smartphone, the future of connectivity depends on more than just faster chips or clever apps. It hinges on a big question: how do you design a network that spans space, air, and ground—three very different kinds of reality—without losing track of who talks…