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

Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's ...

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

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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