Google has announced a new collection of artificial intelligence research developments spanning healthcare, disaster forecasting, scientific discovery and business analytics, including tools designed to help researchers predict flash floods, support clinical consultations
A Neanderthal who died from a penetrating spear wound about 75,000 years ago had previously survived a severe facial injury that may have required prolonged care from others, according to a study of remains discovered in a cave in northern
Billions of potato-shaped metallic nodules lie scattered across the Pacific seabed between Mexico and Hawaii, as deep as 6,000 metres below the surface. The
Henri Kagan of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry
A new study published in Science suggests that interactions with overly approving artificial-intelligence chatbots can subtly encourage uncivil behavior in users. Researchers found that participants who received flattering feedback from AI tools
More
by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
More
A new paper in Nature highlights a modest scientific finding but a momentous shift in how research itself is being done. Researchers at the Tokyo-based company Sakana AI used an artificial-intelligence system
More
After two decades of painstaking work, a team of scientists has uncovered the ultimate limitation of mouse cloning: even with ideal conditions, a single animal’s lineage cannot be perpetuated indefinitely. The results,
More
Researchers have stunned the synthetic biology community by resurrecting “dead” bacterial cells through the transplantation of complete genomes from other species. Reported this month on the preprint server bioRxiv, the technique could
More
When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev could not access the few fossils that might have contained traces of ancient DNA. But in 2000, inspiration struck
More
Chinese scientists have successfully tested a solid rocket engine at a simulated depth of 200 metres, far beyond the typical operating depths of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, raising the prospect of deeper and
More
Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur whose closest known relative was discovered in Spain, offering fresh evidence that parts of South America, Africa and Europe were connected by
More
For the first time, scientists have observed the creation of one of the universe’s most extreme objects — a dense, rapidly spinning magnetar with a magnetic field trillions of times stronger than
More
A Silicon Valley startup has announced what it calls the world’s first successful “multi-behavior brain upload,” after creating a complete digital replica of a fruit fly’s brain capable of controlling a virtual
More
The foundations of digital security, from online banking to messaging apps, cryptocurrency, and critical infrastructure, rely on cryptographic keys—complex strings of characters that are nearly impossible to decipher using classical computers. These
More
In a milestone for space exploration and off-world agriculture, researchers in Texas have successfully grown chickpeas in simulated lunar soil for the first time. Using soil mixtures containing up to 75 percent
More
During last month’s Super Bowl, a television advertisement showcased a simple blood test called Galleri, promising to detect early signs of more than 50 types of cancer or provide reassurance with an
More
A groundbreaking study suggests that mosquitoes began specializing in feeding on humans approximately 1.8 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens reached Southeast Asia. Researchers analyzing the DNA of 11 mosquito species
More
Chinese researchers have achieved a breakthrough in 3D printing, creating fully solid objects from liquid in under a second—a speed never before reported in volumetric printing. The team at Tsinghua University introduced
More
