Features and Investigations

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump

Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers of the 4th Light Brigade, also known as the Black Rats, descended upon the damp

Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough,

The microwave-size instrument at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn’t look all that different from others that I’ve seen in

Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of

When the Palestinian stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna was stopped while entering the US last May, airport customs agents took him

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that

It’s the 25th of June and I’m shivering in my lab-issued underwear in Fort Worth, Texas. Libby Cowgill, an anthropologist

In today's interconnected world, learning a second language has become more important than ever. It is not only a valuable