A team led by the Institute for Protein Design devised machine-learning algorithms that created light-emitting enzymes called luciferases.
In Kenya, property rights are granted more often by democratic regimes than by autocrats — but decisions tend to be politically motivated regardless of who’s in charge.
The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest megadrought—defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer — since at least the year 800, according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
In 1856, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote’s paper “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” was published in the American Journal of Science and Arts.
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.
A cancer vaccine combining checkpoint blockade therapy and a STING-activating drug eliminates tumors and prevents recurrence in mice.
The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery.
In a recent essay, Professor Lily L. Tsai shares ideas on how to include future generations, who will face the climate crisis we’ve created, in our definition of our collective society.
The system they developed eliminates a source of bias in simulations, leading to improved algorithms that can boost the performance of applications.
Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.
A new machine-learning model makes more accurate predictions about ocean currents, which could help with tracking plastic pollution and oil spills, and aid in search and rescue.
Collaboration finds that improved training and support of community health workers are needed to improve HIV testing.
California blackworms tangle themselves up by the thousands, then separate in a split second. Their trick may inspire the design of self-detangling materials and fibers.
RNA contact with tau protein spurs neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — a defining hallmark of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
Analysis of the outbreak shed light on its origins and transmission patterns, and assessed treatment and infection control.
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal test used for over five decades should not be adjusted based on a patient's race.
Study reveals new therapeutic target to subdue autoimmune inflammation caused by loss of regulatory T cell function.
Treatment of childhood-onset hearing loss can be more precisely tailored with information on specific genetic cause.
Worldwide study shows COVID vaccines and boosters reduced the risk of severe COVID-related disease in pregnant women by about 76%.
Harnessing light energy to rejuvenate mitochondrial membrane potential slowed aging in C. elegans.