There’s much debate on whether AI systems are conscious, but one of the godfathers of AI has a persuasive argument on why ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

A coalition of leading health, science, and animal protection organizations is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Cells process dynamic signaling inputs to regulate fate decisions during development. While oscillations or waves in key developmental pathways, such as Wnt, have been widely observed, the principles ...

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines ...

Do insectivorous animals perceive green, caterpillar-shaped clay as a tasty meal? Ecologists sometimes use plasticine models ...

Millionaire tech founder Bryan Johnson has spoken out about next milestone he's reached, revealing how he reduced ...

Nitrous oxide production typically increases in the absence of oxygen, but Sun’s research shows that this relationship is not smooth and instead a result of competition between different microbes.

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

Welcome to the sixth installment of “Dissertation Diaries.” We will be highlighting Machlan Sawden, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Shruti Sharma Lab at the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical ...

A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey Island reveals that birds were responsible for carrying most of the plants that colonized ...

We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, the researchers argue, would be incredibly difficult. If you have the time, ...