In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers used machine learning to discover multiple new classes of ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

What is the basic computational unit of the brain? The neuron? The cortical column? The gene? Although to a neuroscientist this question might seem poorly formulated, to a computer scientist it is ...

Experimental evolution enables evaluation of the relative roles of chance and necessity in evolution. This study compiles transcriptomic data from experimental evolution of a prokaryotic and five ...