Multicellularity is one of the major evolutionary transitions, and its rise provided the ingredients for the emergence of a biosphere inhabited by complex organisms. Over the last decades, the ...

Researchers from more than 50 international institutions have launched Open Problems (https://openproblems.bio), a collaborative open-source platform to benchmark, improve, and run competitions for ...

Universal Differential Equations (UDEs) combine mechanistic differential equations with data-driven artificial neural networks, forming a flexible framework for modelling complex biological systems.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...