algorithms

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

A method appears to be the first to noninvasively reconstruct language from brain activity.

Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose cells into new robots—a reproduction method not seen in any other organism.

Scientists traced 1,000 neurons through the mouse brain, uncovering new details about how the organ is wired.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to pick out the features of brightfield microscopy images.

A proof-of-principle study raises hopes that technology can give a voice to paralyzed people unable to speak.

Researchers develop an app that can estimate the biological age of a rodent from its mug shot—and could give a boost to the science of human aging in the process.

 A model helps recapitulate the geometric patterning of insect wings.

Scientists photograph a spider web in micron-scale glory.

Computational biologists are optimistic that the purchase of the world’s largest hub for open-source computer code will not affect the way they use GitHub for science.

An algorithm trained to move through a virtual environment spontaneously generated patterns of activity found in so-called grid neurons.

A junk mail filter can learn to pick out six behaviors of hydras by analyzing hours of video footage.

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

Teams of modelers compete to develop algorithms for estimating how people will perceive a particular odor from its molecular characteristics.