By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...

Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for ...