In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older ...

This winter is one for the books. It hasn’t been an easy one to navigate—even for the most rugged of PopMech editors. Here on ...

In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him as a chatbot, a grief experiment that later evolved into ...

Imagine fixing your eyesight not with risky surgery or an endless supply of eye drops, but by briefly turning your eye off … and back on.

James Hyatt, age 4, was rambling around a green field with his dad on a pleasant day one May. Holding his dad’s metal detector in Hockley, a large village in the UK about 2 hours’ drive from London, ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Every generator and power station has two numbers listed on it: starting watts (sometimes called surge or peak watts) and ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...

The AI industry’s unquenchable appetite for computing power led to higher prices on PC components. This year, we may see ...

Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.