Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Experts say the emerging tech can dramatically accelerate advances in drug discovery, diagnostics and precision medicine.

The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. In two videos, researchers describe the work ...

Should university presidents publicly weigh in on the most pressing societal issues of our times? In some academic circles, especially at public universities, it is now common for presidents to adopt ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Should university presidents publicly weigh in on the most pressing societal issues of our times? In some academic circles, especially at public universities, it is now common for presidents to adopt ...

Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of sociology, or merely a sophisticated mime act?

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a ...

Published today in Science, the discovery marks the creation and observation of the first molecule with a half-Möbius electronic topology.

Rydberg atoms are atoms with one or more outer electrons excited to very high energy levels, which interact very strongly ...