The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

Science Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories Kids form fleeting memories at around 12 months, even as their brains are rapidly rewiring themselves.

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

In some situations, our sense of time expands. We slip outside our normal consciousness, and into a different time-world. Why does this happen?

Instead of being invented by different people independently, many key inventions were discovered once then shared.

Dr. Duxin Sun is the associate dean for research and the Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He serves as ...

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

The new algorithm, Pinal, is just the latest in a growing family of algorithms that can translate English text into new proteins.

Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.

Though 5G—a next-generation speed upgrade to wireless networks—is scarcely up and running (and still nonexistent in many places) researchers are already working on what comes next. It lacks an ...