Thomas Lewton is a features editor at New Scientist, based in London. They write about cosmology, neuroscience, particle physics and the politics of science. They are also co-editor of Eco-Bot.Net where they investigate climate change disinformation and corporate greenwashing. Their feature articles…
Artificial intelligence faces an energy crisis stemming from a physical traffic jam inside modern computer chips. Processors must continually shuffle data, such as the billions of parameters in complex models, between separate computing and memory nodes. This traffic jam, known…
Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect splicing remains a major challenge. Although recent artificial intelligence (AI) models have improved splice-site prediction, many struggle to capture regulatory signals located…
More than half of France’s population was dealing with scorching temperatures on Friday, according to AFP’s calculations, with hundreds of schools adapting their timetables to keep students out of broiling classrooms.
