The algorithm is grounded in math and physics and allows a nuclear microreactor to automatically control its thermal power.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins ...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on experiments to perfect them. The resulting enzymes catalyse a chemical ...