Northwestern Computer Science alum Yifan Wu (PhD ’25) has received an Honorable Mention for the Association for Computing ...

For years, the idea of building a working replica of the human brain has lived comfortably in the realm of science fiction. A ...

The use of animals for scientific research has a long history and has led to major medical advances, but we should not forget ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

Organoids and engineered systems are transforming malaria research, improving drug discovery and understanding of Plasmodium ...

In a controlled experiment that lasted just one hour, researchers prompted several leading AI chatbots and received detailed ...

For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into ...

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in ...

AI could "give the scientific community a way to address the most difficult and urgent questions in human health," argues ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

In this post, we share the motivations, design choices, experiments, and learnings that informed its development, as well as an evaluation of the model’s performance and guidance on how to use it. Our ...

A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb, while artificial intelligence systems guzzle electricity to do the same tasks. Now, scientists have created a highly efficient AI model that hints ...