Podcast: I Was There When: AI helped create a vaccine Only a select few people know what it’s like to be present during breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing. In the latest... Read more »

Bold research advances will underpin future connectivity Addressing these physical and technical limitations will require leaps of innovation, but the promise of applications powered by advanced 6G connectivity is motivating creative solutions.... Read more »

Although later studies questioned the detection of phosphine, the initial study reignited interest in Venus. In its wake, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) selected three new missions to travel to... Read more »

And that whole process from end to end can be immensely expensive, cost billions of dollars and take, you know, up to a decade to do that. And in many cases, it... Read more »

The record-breaking heat wave in China, which started back in June, has evaporated over half the hydroelectricity generation capacity in Sichuan, a southwestern province that usually gets 81% of its electricity from... Read more »

In the coming weeks, a volunteer in Boston, Massachusetts, will be the first to trial a new treatment that could end up creating a second liver in their body. And that’s just... Read more »

But in trying to do so, it has demonstrated something else: the most popular content on Facebook is often awful, recycled generic memes.  It’s not necessarily surprising that reposting already popular memes... Read more »

And the lymph nodes near the liver are close enough to receive chemical distress signals sent out by the dying tissue of a diseased liver, says Lagasse. These signals are meant to... Read more »

The findings, described in a paper in Nature today, could help scientists learn more about how human embryos develop and provide insights into diseases, as well as providing an alternative to animals... Read more »