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The ecologist Holly Moeller studies microorganisms that expand their range by absorbing organelles and gaining new metabolic talents from their prey.

Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. But they were wrong.

The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different.

Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.

By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a deeper truth beyond one system.” But what can such experiments teach us?

If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?

After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve.

A quantum approach to data analysis that relies on the study of shapes will likely remain an example of a quantum advantage — albeit for increasingly unlikely scenarios.

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.