In a lab each move is programmed, but in the wider world, artificial intelligence must adapt to endless variety.
Voleon is among funds deploying machine learning, a technology in which computers develop trading strategies. It’s harder than it sounds, given that markets are noisy and clients often want a better understanding of how their money is being invested. 52
A new book features striking images from the past 50 years of NASA’s archives.
The nation’s 11 million leaf blowers have two-stroke engines that pump pollutants into the air. 256
Many smarter animals have fewer children and invest more in them. Could the same thing be true about smarter butterflies? Alison Gopnik reports.
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Eugenia Cheng uses her adventures with macarons to demonstrate a key part of mathematics—the use of exponentials.
Scientists are vying for credit in the complex story of the Crispr gene-editing system—and the battlefield is partly the publishing world.
High-schoolers should learn about discrete math and how to build electronic circuits. 340
An illuminating exhibition reveals the great variety of ways animals experience the world—and our human limitations in doing the same.
On Dec. 2, 1942, scientists carried out the first successful nuclear chain reaction, leading to the development of nuclear weapons. Seventy-five years later, here’s a look at a few ways the U.S. government has tried to find positive uses for “peaceful nuclear explosions.”
