Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The Possibility Lab is working with state agencies and communities to implement more participatory engagement and frameworks.

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This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ...

These young scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are working to build a better world at every scale imaginable.

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Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.

Donald Trump's new "Genesis Mission" initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a ...

Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...