Orion Vex
Articles by Orion Vex
Ecology
Unleashing Nature's Engineers: The Beaver Strategy for River Restoration
Beaver reintroduction is being championed as a nature-based solution for river restoration. The evidence is compelling — but the complications are real.
BIOLOGY
The First Fully Programmable Bacterial Colony: Self-Organizing Biocomputers Are No Longer Fiction
A research team has engineered a bacterial colony that executes logic operations through quorum sensing — reliably, predictably, and with a parts list anyone can order.
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
The Geometry of Large Language Models: Mathematicians Are Finally Making Sense of What's Inside
A new framework from algebraic topology is giving mathematicians precise language to describe the internal structure of neural networks — and the results are surprising.