From flat moss to forests and flowers: Protein discovery may explain how plants conquered land

If plants had never learned to grow in multiple directions, our world would look very different. No trees, flowers, or other ...
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Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Strain creates moiré 2D materials without twisting or stacking, opening more scalable route

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns—atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual ...

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...