NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | ALL TOPICS

Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient

By STEVE NADIS

Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more consistent.

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PARTICLE PHYSICS

Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check

By LYNDIE CHIOU

Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms.

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In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists
Search for the Universe's Missing Matter
By Steve Nadis

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

New AI Tools Predict How Life's Building Blocks Assemble

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Google DeepMind's AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells' biological landscapes.

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Related:
The Shape-Shifting
Army Inside Your Cells
By Alla Katsnelson (2017)

NUMBER THEORY

A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics

By KEVIN HARTNETT

In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field.

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Related:
Big Question About Primes
Proved in Small Number Systems
By Kevin Hartnett (2019)

THE JOY OF WHY

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

Podcast co-hosted by JANNA LEVIN

Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.

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