What We're Reading

A media and computer science professor argues that software cannot always catch recycled text; in fact, writers will sometimes game the system to get a good originality score at the expense of clarity.

Most advanced-stage cancers mutate, resisting drugs meant to kill them. Now physicians are harnessing the principles of evolution to thwart that lethal adaptation.

A machine inspired by biology, self-coordinates movement based on statistical principles.

The CERN discovery of so-called CP violation in particles called D mesons, which contain charm quarks, provides a fresh way to probe why matter exists.

Frilly surfaces that help slugs move may motivate future energy-efficient, soft-body robots, according to work by Shankar Venkataramani of the University of Arizona and a 2018 Simons Fellow in mathematics.

An experiment that measured the EEGs of people in a shielded room found that the alpha waves of one-third of participants changed when an artificially produced magnetic field rotated counterclockwise.

Armored ‘footballs‘ can be coaxed into cylinder and dumbbell shapes.

As in previous years, Congress will likely reject the proposed cuts to the president's budget proposal, which amounts to a vision statement more than an actual funding plan.

Alcohol content, the pour and the shape of the glass are factors in wine tears, but shock waves may explain why they don't always occur, finds Simons investigator Andrea Bertozzi of UCLA.

Theoretical modeling by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Flatiron Institute shows that the forces generated by freely swimming microorganisms will sweep them all up in predictable ways.