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The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain.

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length.

Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play.

As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.

In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.

Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we know that the simplest versions can’t get any shorter.