A model helps recapitulate the geometric patterning of insect wings.

Scientists photograph a spider web in micron-scale glory.

Computational biologists are optimistic that the purchase of the world’s largest hub for open-source computer code will not affect the way they use GitHub for science.

An algorithm trained to move through a virtual environment spontaneously generated patterns of activity found in so-called grid neurons.

A junk mail filter can learn to pick out six behaviors of hydras by analyzing hours of video footage.

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

Teams of modelers compete to develop algorithms for estimating how people will perceive a particular odor from its molecular characteristics.