DESI Maps the Universe and Questions Dark Energy
A 2024 survey produced the largest 3D map of the cosmos and hinted that dark energy may change over time....
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A Gravitational-Wave Hum Fills the Universe
In 2023 astronomers detected a low-frequency background of gravitational waves. By timing pulsars across the galaxy, they found a pervasive...
The W Boson Measurement That Unsettled Physics
A 2022 measurement of a fundamental particle's mass clashed with theory. An experiment reported the W boson heavier than the...
Protein Language Models Learn Biology From Sequence
Treating proteins like text taught models their structure and function. Language models trained on millions of protein sequences learned patterns...
AlphaMissense Predicts the Harm of Genetic Variants
Most genetic mutations have unknown effects; an AI began to change that. In 2023 a model classified millions of possible...
Neural Radiance Fields Turn Photos Into 3D Scenes
A 2020 method reconstructs photorealistic 3D scenes from a handful of photos. It trains a small network to represent how...
Segment Anything Builds a Foundation Model for Vision
Image segmentation got a general-purpose base model in 2023. Trained on a billion masks, the system can isolate any object...
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Unlocks Reasoning
Asking a model to think step by step改 changed what it could solve. A 2022 finding showed that prompting large...
Direct Preference Optimization Simplifies Alignment
Aligning models to human preference got simpler in 2023. A method reframed the problem so a model can learn directly...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation Grounds Language Models
Language models can look things up instead of memorizing everything. A 2020 approach pairs a generator with a retriever that...
