In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

Radial Basis Function methods for scattered data interpolation and for the numerical solution of PDEs were originally implemented in a global manner. Subsequently, it was realized that the methods ...

Unlike CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases, which yield DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), Cas9 nickases (nCas9s), which are created by replacing key catalytic amino-acid residues in one of the two nuclease domains ...

Since the “resolution revolution” (Kühlbrandt, 2014), single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) has established itself as a prime tool for determining the three dimensional structure of ...

Want faster number-crunching in Python? You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, often with only one instruction. Python is not the fastest language, but lack of speed hasn’t ...

Precision or individualized medicine is predicated on an understanding of the genetic variation found in the population. Accordingly, the preponderance of variants of uncertain significance found in ...