Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical ...

A recent study from Oregon State University estimated that more than 3,500 animal species are at risk of extinction because of factors including habitat alterations, natural resources being ...

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A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found.

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His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

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Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...