For our cover this week, I wrote about why AI companies all want to push the frontier of science, and the prospect that actually discovering things about the universe is mostly a byproduct of making better AI models www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Paleontologist: You mean the ghost lineage? Look fossilization is rare and we don’t have strata preserving the relevant time period. We can infer it was very impressive and doing lots of things that would make one hirable though…

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We're starting our JuliaCon Global '26 video posting with our first keynote by Simon Peyton Jones! https://youtu.be/uHlT5sFejXM

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This week we were lucky to have Hardy Gross visiting and giving a masterclass on time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) at the @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social #compchem

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arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

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