Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
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Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

Want a tall, smart child? How IVF tests are selling a dream

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

Light may outshine quantum for some of computing's toughest optimization problems

Published in Nature, the study details the first large-scale demonstration of a photonic Ising machine operating without the ...

I tested Gemini 3 Flash vs Claude 4.6 Opus in 9 tough challenges — here's the winner

Claude 4.6 Opus just launched — so I put it head-to-head with Gemini 3 Flash in nine tough tests covering math, logic, coding ...