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

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Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

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 ...

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

Seven mice just joined the pantheon of offspring created from same-sex parents—and opened the door to offspring born from a single parent. In a study published in Nature, researchers described how ...

Are planets with conditions that are "just right" for life as we know it rare in the galaxy? A new study suggests Earth-like planets may be a dime a dozen.

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 ...

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.

DNA is nature’s computing device. Unlike data centers, DNA is incredibly compact. These molecules package an entire organism’s genetic blueprint into tiny but sophisticated structures inside each cell ...

Generating 3D scenes has been expensive and time-consuming. Now, thanks to new approaches, 3D capture of the world is progressing at stunning speed.

Science Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even ...