The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants ...

A powerful molecular clock calibrated using data on gene activity from thousands of individuals can predicts biological ...

Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.

Do algorithms used by social-media platforms amplify posts that are emotive, toxic, political or perceived as moralizing? And, if they do, does that affect how users see their social world? William ...

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...