Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question still lingers—was it worth it?

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Kentucky has discovered that Antarctica's only native insect is already consuming microplastics, despite living in one of ...

On a recent stay at a friend’s house, I encountered a familiar problem. The friend, a thoughtful host, had left us washcloths ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 beats Opus in agentic tasks, adds 1 million context, and excels in finance and automation, all at one-fifth ...

This study reports an important and novel finding that TENT5A, an enzyme involved in fine-tuning poly(A) tail length on selected mRNAs, is required for proper enamel mineralization in mice. The ...

Citi's Global Industrial Tech & Mobility Conference 2026 February 19, 2026 1:50 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsDylan ...

Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second most energetic cosmic ray ever to be detected striking Earth.