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

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought. But don't ...

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 ...

A giggling toddler in a pink dress and matching headphones lies down on her back in front of a gigantic whirling machine. A pillowy headrest cushions her head. She seems unfazed as she’s slowly ...

Broader Scope. Rather than just a single gene, the new study focused on diseases with multiple genetic contributions in a simulation. Using previous data that associated genetic variants with diseases ...

Using AI to screen for cancer isn’t new. But older methods often made diagnoses using medical images. Evo 2 used DNA sequences alone. With further validation, the tool could one day help scientists ...

Peter Murray was born in Boston in 1973. He earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore studying gene expression in the neocortex. Following his dissertation work he spent ...

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase in a new language, but despite hours of practice ...

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.

What all of these concepts share is that they involve the use of three-dimensional space. That is a very big deal. My colleague at Singularity University, interface designer Jody Medich, taught me ...