General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

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Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to ...

Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs ...

A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children ...

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the ...

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The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges To hear Silicon Valley ...

Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...