WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

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Computational biology and bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops and applies computational methods to analyse large collections of biological data, such as genetic sequences, cell ...

Most of the plastic products we use are made through injection molding, a process in which molten plastic is injected into a ...

For decades, popular science has repeated a simple origin story: everything in our bodies was forged in ancient stars and ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

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Researchers have developed a method for mapping the orientation and organization of tissue fibers, furthering our understanding of pathology.

When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.