Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre ...

Periodic Labs wants to build AI scientists that can run experiments, learn from reality and accelerate discovery in physics ...

As the generations dragged on past the 27th iteration, the birth rate began to silently collapse. By the 57th generation, a mere 0.6 percent of the cloned embryos survived. The 58th generation ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

Explore the 1969 Coventry radioactive chapati experiment, why South Asian women were involved without proper consent, the ethical concerns, health risks, and renewed calls for a statutory inquiry in ...

A single-celled organism shows Pavlovian learning, challenging our assumptions about the origins of cognition.

Driven by several converging developments, the relationship between modelling and experimentation in complex systems has entered a new phase. The abundance ...

Augustine Recovery reports that a 90-day phone detox reveals physical withdrawal effects similar to substance addiction, ...

The scene, once confined to research labs, is now moving rapidly onto Chinese factory floors, offering a glimpse into China’s efforts to develop future industries using embodied artificial ...

With a new lab-based experiment, researchers in the UK and France have recreated the characteristic cascades of energy and angular momentum that underpin key features of Earth's atmosphere. Reporting ...

Orono High School hosted the 80th annual Maine State Science Fair today.

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...