The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Dwarfing every living thing around them millions of years ago, Prototaxites have long defied scientific classification ...

Intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) is one of the most important photophysical mechanisms in organic fluorophores. Among ICT processes, TICT ...

Him, gives insight on the history of the term "Black" and how the construction of race is similar to a caste system.

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who ...

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Learn the distinctions between simple and stratified random sampling. Understand how researchers use these methods to accurately represent data populations.