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.

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 ...

AI will often not be as effective as a human doing the same job. But it may be used whenever it has an advantage over humans in one of four dimensions.

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 ...

Ask meat eaters and most would likely agree that one of the carnivorous delights non-meat-eaters are most missing out on is bacon. Salty, smoky, chewy, delectable on sandwiches, crumbled up in recipes ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

The team used CRISPR to replace over 18,000 codons with synthetic amino acids that don’t exist anywhere in the natural world.