A study shows that social interactions in the nursery have a huge impact on babies’ microbiome development and may facilitate ...

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

Hackathons using AlphaGenome and other AI models are hunting down the genetic causes of devastating conditions that have ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

It uses a system called simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES). This translates chemical 3D structures into ...

Bacteria can be turned into living factories that churn out complex molecules using reactions catalysed by light 1.

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The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

The preprint repository’s requirement could boost the use of large language models to translate scientific texts.

Wildfire smoke, spore-spread fungal diseases and microplastic are all on the rise, even as the US government slashes support ...

Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act as early warning signs of problematic ...