Optimizing RNA design with AI and an Ising machine: Encoding matters

RNA has emerged as one of the most promising molecules in modern medicine, enabling advances from mRNA vaccines and gene ...
C&EN

China bets on AI to speed up science despite chip limits

Driven by aggressive state policies and a national supercomputing network, Chinese labs are rapidly embedding AI into daily ...
Nature

Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...
New Scientist

Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...
Smithsonian Magazine

America’s Original Travel Influencer Drew Up a Revolutionary Itinerary 200 Years Ago. There’s Still Plenty to See Along the Way

Follow along as we retrace the route one journalist laid out in “The Fashionable Tour,” from New York City to Niagara Falls, when memories of the fight for independence were still fresh Tony Perrottet ...
IEEE

Mirror Descent Safe Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Abstract: Embodied intelligence and related disciplines have identified several mechanisms that help embodied agents learn how to solve complex problems. Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most ...