In a landmark study published in Cell Reports, scientists demonstrated that mouse cortical organoids (miniature, lab-grown ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he could solve it, he’d earn a dozen ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Quantum computers work by applying quantum operations, such as quantum gates, to delicate quantum states. Ideally, quantum ...

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he ...