The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an ...

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When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

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A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

“Based on their training data, they just model the probability that a given token, or word, will follow a set of tokens that ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded with broken satellites and leftover rocket parts. Researchers say the solution is to build ...

Through conversations at these global forums, one insight became clear to me: Technology alone will not define the future of ...

Sinikka Lennartz, a junior professor of biogeochemical ocean modelling at the University of Oldenburg in northern Germany, has won several prestigious awards this year. She specialises in the marine ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.