The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

Science Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories Kids form fleeting memories at around 12 months, even as their brains are rapidly rewiring themselves.

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

In some situations, our sense of time expands. We slip outside our normal consciousness, and into a different time-world. Why does this happen?

Instead of being invented by different people independently, many key inventions were discovered once then shared.

Peter Murray was born in Boston in 1973. He earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore studying gene expression in the neocortex. Following his dissertation work he spent ...

The new algorithm, Pinal, is just the latest in a growing family of algorithms that can translate English text into new proteins.

If humans survive the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the moment?

The small device contains a slurry of chemicals representing primary flavors and mixes them together to mimic the taste of coffee, lemonade, and more.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...