The protein universe is about to get bigger. Scientists can now use AI to build proteins never before seen in nature. These designer proteins may become therapeutics, environmental sensors, or even ...

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The patients sit perfectly still as a needle ...

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of last week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...

My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

In Back to the Future, Doc Brown tells Marty McFly, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need…roads.” Where (or more precisely, when) were they going? Why, the year 2015. As you may have noticed, we’re ...

Elderly mice on the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide aged slower and lived longer, mimicking the longevity effects of caloric restriction. It’s a hot GLP-1 drug summer. Semaglutide—better known as ...

The gene editor CRISPR is tackling fatty molecules in the body that contribute to one of the world’s top killers: cardiovascular disease. With a single injection, their flagship formulation lowered ...

China’s Moonshot AI Releases Model to Challenge Top US SystemsTracy Qu and Raffaele Huang | The Wall Street Journal ($) "Moonshot said Friday that it planned to fully open-source the model, called ...

Scientists just transformed a living mouse’s kidney into an incubator for developing human sperm made from blood cells. It sounds like sci-fi Mad Libs. But a team at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm? Treat the Matplotlib event as a one-off if you like. The deeper point, however, ...

Atlases have long guided us through uncharted territory. Now, an AI-generated atlas by Google DeepMind seeks to do the same for the vast landscape of our DNA. Ever since the Human Genome Project, ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...