Stephen Ornes

In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.

Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they’ve started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors.

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems.

Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places.

Mark Braverman has spent his career translating thorny problems into the language of information complexity.

A simple algorithm that revolutionizes how neural networks approach language is now taking on image classification as well. It may not stop there.

In nonreciprocal systems, where Newton’s third law falls apart, “exceptional points” are helping researchers understand phase transitions and possibly other phenomena.

Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model the complex connections within their data.

Long considered solved, David Hilbert’s question about seventh-degree polynomials is leading researchers to a new web of mathematical connections.