The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it pulls this off. Scientists discovered that brain regions operate on different ...

Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...

Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...

Mingi Kang ’26 received a Fall Research Award from Bowdoin this semester to support his project exploring how two distinct concepts for computer vision might be combined to create a more robust ...

Expert software and systems engineer Allan Sun shares the system he developed for tackling obstacles big and small.

A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

AI systems learn patterns from data rather than following explicit instructions. Neural networks process information through connected layers to detect complex patterns. Modern AI chatbots like ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...

Google's new AI model can interact directly with website UIs. It joins similar tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company also admitted its weaknesses, including hallucinations. Google DeepMind has ...