An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Lab-grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before.

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

Health Secretary RFK Jr. removed four members of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, which advises on Vaccine ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

In his book ‘The Theory of Everything Else,’ comedian and writer Dan Schreiber compiles the craziest (and, in some cases, the ...

George Eliot is one of the most popular novelists of English literature. She was born as Mary Ann Evans but took George Eliot ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Asking ‘what is life?’ is a good way to start arguments in science. As a recent informal poll suggests, no two individuals are likely to give the same response, the differences perhaps being even more ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without seeds or sexual reproduction.