The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma, there have ...

Fermentation has evolved into precision fermentation, utilizing biotechnology to engineer microorganisms that produce ...

Scientists have confirmed that synthetic chemicals, including persistent pollutants known as PFAS, now contaminate ocean waters thousands of miles from any factory or city. A series of recent studies, ...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One ...

So, Microsoft’s been working on something pretty big in the quantum computing world. They’ve developed this new ...

A unique Dutch experiment is combining cryptocurrency mining with tulip farming. Farmers are capturing heat from Bitcoin computers to warm greenhouses. This innovative approach emerged during Europe's ...

Reflecting on the strength model of self-control, some criticisms of the model, and some of the adjustments that have emerged ...

Karpathy's 'autoresearch' agent did not improve its own code, but it points towards systems that could as well as towards way ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...