In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

Researchers from China University of Petroleum (East China), in collaboration with international partners, have reported a ...

The 2026 ACS president will spend the society's 150th anniversary focusing on growing ACS's platform and engaging its members ...

A newly designed robust mechanophore provides early warning against mechanical failure while resisting heat and UV, report ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

A magnetic cloak works by diverting external magnetic fields so that, to an external observer, the object appears to be absent or invisible. Although this idea ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully expl ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.