Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower ...

Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.

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Scientist have developed a host of AI ‘protein language models’ that can create proteins from scratch. But Raygun can modify ...

Previous sleep research has focused mostly on the brain circuitry that snaps people awake in seconds or on how sleep debt ...

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...

Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.

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The idea of AI sentience is drawing more focus to consciousness science. But some researchers aren’t sure that’s a good thing.

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the wasting and fatigue that often accompanies cancer. Treatments could be on ...