An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Abstract: Complex systems with inter-dependencies and in-teractions are hard to understand. Negative effects on a system level due to architectural deficits can introduce system errors. For ...

The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle ...

Scientists used powerful computer models to show a more stable discrete time crystal. Very simplified toy models help scientists get started, but the real world is far more complex. In this case, more ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models. The human ...