The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

The team came up with a new meshy material that can be embedded with electrodes and is less than a micrometer thick. They then fabricated a “holding” device to support tadpole embryos and gently ...

This may sound like an episode of Planet Earth —but there were no cameras. Instead, scientists collected microscopic snippets of airborne DNA with a vacuum. They documented the animals by running this ...

The neurons also had different personalities. Optimistic ones were especially sensitive to unexpectedly large rewards—activating with a burst—whereas pessimistic ones stayed silent. Combining the ...

It’s now possible to treat inherited blood diseases, such as sickle cell disease, with gene editing. Blood stem cells are extracted from the patient, modified, and infused back into their bone ...

Talk to Me To use Pinal, a user asks the AI to build a protein with a prompt of several keywords, phrases, or an entire paragraph. On the front end, the AI parses the specific requirements in the ...

Jevin West is a professor and the associate dean for research in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is the co-founder and the inaugural director of the Center for an Informed ...

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...

Over two weeks, the team captured activity from pyramidal cells—the ones with long branches on one end and bushes on the other. Rather than only observing each neuron’s activity as a whole, the team ...

My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...