Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive biological datasets with the extraordinary power of Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer.

The chief executive of Microsoft AI talks to Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf about the markets and AI investment, timescales for replacement of professional tasks, the push for self-sufficiency, a ...

AI-driven autonomous robots are coming to biology laboratories, but researchers insist that human skills remain essential.

Scientists are increasingly turning to the windowsill for answers to one of medicine’s toughest problems, arguing that a common houseplant could reshape how we think about Alzheimer’s disease. Early ...

Quantum computer research is advancing at a rapid pace. Today's devices, however, still have significant limitations: For example, the length of a quantum computation is severely limited—that is, the ...

Robert Pellegrino, Ph.D., has joined the Texas A&M Department of Animal Science as an assistant professor of sensory science ...

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events.

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how scientists understand proteins—these are working molecules that drive nearly every process in the human body, from cell growth and immune defense to ...