PERCEPTION | ALL TOPICS

Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors

By ARIEL BLEICHER

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin's tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations.

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GRAPH THEORY

New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

By LEILA SLOMAN

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They've now both been proved wrong.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

By ANIL ANANTHASWAMY

We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way.

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THE JOY OF WHY

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
With STEVEN STROGATZ and JANNA LEVIN

Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, which uses laser-cooled atoms to explore whether gravity could emerge from quantum entanglement.

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