In "On Growth and Form," published in 1917, the scientist D’Arcy Thompson highlighted similarities between living and nonliving matter. His thesis — that physical and mechanical forces shape organisms — is coming back into vogue. quantamagazine.org/genes-have-har…

one of many reasons to be optimistic about AI

Just arrived at #SES2025 in Atlanta, GA! The Society of Engineering Science (SES) brings together researchers working across the boundaries of mechanics, materials, mathematics, physics, and computation. Having served as President of SES, I’ve always admired how the society

Do co-folding models learn physics—or just memorize pockets? Deep models like AlphaFold3 and RoseTTAFold All-Atom can place small molecules into protein pockets with eye-popping accuracy. But when chemistry changes, do they still obey sterics, electrostatics, and chemistry—or

Today at #SES2025 I will present in the Emergent Behavior in Active Matter Symposium, covering how decentralized intelligence can arise from simple local interactions - from transformers that learn and infer the rules of cellular automata to swarms of AI agents that design

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After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison AGI (Maison AGI), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era. Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (Ilya Sutskever), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature

I’m biased but I want to see way more of this AI + cancer research + open-source thinking long-term: science research has been most beneficial and successful when it involved a community exchanging and fostering ideas. We have to keep this alive in a world of increasingly

DMSE together with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing seeks candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with experience in combining fundamental scientific principles with algorithmic innovations to empower understanding and synthesis of materials. Applications close Nov 30: buff.ly/wJ5eEBP

Excellent paper and thought leadership! Thank you Dan Hendrycks and collaborators. The work highlights many important features still missing in today’s AI such as interactive intelligence, perception, adaptability and memory. A key component is the ability to abstract and

Excited to announce that we’re hosting the IROS 2025 AIR4S Workshop “Embodied AI and Robotics for Future Scientific Discovery” on October 24, 2025 (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, GMT+8) at the Hangzhou International Expo Center – Pressroom A (210A). Invited Speakers - leading experts from