A Black Hole Is Born

A new study reveals that the geometry of brain activity patterns determines how well knowledge transfers to new situations, and presents a single mathematical formula that captures this in both brains and AI systems.

A new preprint shows that a type of particle interaction many physicists expected would not occur can in fact arise under specific conditions. The work focuses on gluons, the particles that carry the strong nuclear force.

New research examines a newly characterized beetle species, Sceptobius, that lives in a symbiotic relationship with ant colonies, and finds that Sceptobius infiltrates ant colonies by developing an invisibility cloak — silencing its own pheromones in order to steal and mask themselves with ant pheromones.

A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized.