Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came ...

Snakes can sometimes be unwelcome guests in your garden or backyard, but you may inadvertently be giving them an invitation if you have these plants.

A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

Background Remission and low-disease activity are recommended targets in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet many ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

A research team led by Sahand Jamal Rahi at EPFL’s Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems has introduced a new ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

For the first time, researchers have simulated nearly every chemical reaction in a living bacterial cell. The simulation models the virtual cell copying its DNA and dividing in two. The simulation ...

ARTIFICIAL intelligence could reveal the gender of a baby as early as three days after fertilisation, scientists reckon. The AI tech was more accurate than humans in determining the sex of IVF ...

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...