Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

When scientists want to study aging and how to slow it down, they often turn to microscopic worms or lab mice among other models. The former are too different from humans, while the latter are ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

How public data can be better organized, interpreted, and used to drive meaningful outcomes for the wider public good.

To thrive in this environment, retailers need to go beyond functional benefits and focus on creating emotional value for ...

Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models.

An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

Very simplified toy models help scientists get started, but the real world is far more complex.

Below the surface, Greenland’s ice appears to be churning up, a process one scientist described as akin to a “boiling pot of pasta” ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opt its host’s systems with the help of ...