Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new approach that addresses the limitations of generative AI ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover.

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel.

Far below the reach of sunlight, at roughly 4,000 m deep on the Pacific seafloor, researchers have stumbled on a form of oxygen that should not exist there at all. The finding, quickly dubbed “dark ...

Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology addresses a persistent challenge in plant science by making it possible to track ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...