The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

Over the centuries, polymaths — or people knowledgeable in many disciplines — have brought forth a wide range of inventions and discoveries. Now polymaths may be setting the course of artificial ...

Having an in-depth knowledge of the physics of a problem, for example the atomic structure of a material, offers the opportunity to apply concepts effectively, thus creating new devices. To do this, ...