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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 ...

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 ...

More than a third of large animals that feast on dead animals are struggling to survive, and a new report from scientists ...

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

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

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

Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's natural defenses against cancer. This pathway, which plays a key role in ...

The ability to analyze gene expression at the single-cell level—known as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)—has ...