Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of ...

The genetic code is what life everywhere uses to convert the information contained in DNA into specific protein sequences. With minor variations, the same genetic code is used by every living thing on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the genius’s playground that was Bell Labs in the 1950s, Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, ...

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Precise activation of tens of thousands of genes is critical for healthy development and growth. Specialized segments of our DNA are responsible for carefully orchestrating genetic sequences that ...

Scientists have revealed the DNA sequence code of the “initiator,” a crucial sequence that kick-starts gene activation. A machine learning analysis of a half million experimental data points yielded ...

OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model solved ten open maths problems, shipping Lean proofs on GitHub for roughly $2,000 in compute OpenAI says an internal version of its next major model, called ...

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family. First, Noah turned the odd age of 9 in May. Then Isaiah turned odd — or, ...

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In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By ...

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.