On a lonely planet, billions of years ago, a soup of chemicals — in the right place, at the right time, and with the right conditions — shifted from an unalive assemblage into something scientists ...

While large language models and silicon-based AI rightly command the public’s attention, scientists across multiple domains are making deep and inexorable discoveries that now dance at the precarious ...

In 2010, scientists at the University of Tokyo and other institutions reported a startling achievement: They had successfully grown a pancreas made almost entirely of rat cells within the bodies of ...

The human body is a master at regulating itself. For example, if your blood pressure rises precipitously, it will cause your arterial wall to stretch. Receptors in your body will sense this change and ...

Nicolas Rivron, a biologist now based in Austria, spent close to a decade trying to build a model mouse embryo in the lab from scratch. After years of incremental progress and occasional false leads, ...

For centuries, humans have sought a vital essence to explain what makes life different from the rest of matter. Therein lies one of the most persistent errors in human thought, and one that has ...

To date, Earth remains the only inhabited world we know, which is why astrobiologists — loosely defined as those scientists seeking to understand the potential for life elsewhere in the universe — ...

IT RISKS PROFOUND understatement to suggest that artificial intelligence, whatever that phrase might mean, is everywhere. It has acquired the aspect of kudzu vine, with fibrous, braided tentacles now ...

Twelve years ago, Frank Kendall, then under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics at the Department of Defense, pulled up a PowerPoint slide to show a group of senior ...