To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...

A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) has now been published in Nature. This work encompasses the efforts of more than 3,600 HCA members from over one hundred ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

The past few decades have seen the emergence of several diseases with drastic public health and economic consequences. Understanding routes of pathogen emergence and transmission is critical to ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. The past few ...