Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

Abstract: The Gray-code method combined with the phase-shifting algorithm is widely used in noncontact 3-D shape measurement. However, when the period number of fringe is high, a large number of ...

The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new joint random caching and hierarchical transmission scheme for delivering multimedia content in cache-assisted heterogeneous networks. We use scalable video coding ...

The code base for our work on improving the performance of sequence-to-expression models for making individual-specific gene expression predictions by fine-tuning them on personal genome and ...

OpenAI Says ChatGPT's Writing Worsened Due to Overtraining Math, Coding OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that with GPT-5.2, the focus was on coding and reasoning, which disbalanced writing.

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...