Computers have made it easier than ever before to design the perfect material for a given problem: Scientists can create a virtual version and simulate how that material will behave. Building these ...

In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

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Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...

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W HEN ERIC STALLARD, an actuary and academic, began looking into the incidence of dementia among elderly Americans, he was so ...

When it’s new, the battery in your phone or electric car works just fine. It charges, discharges, and recharges with smooth ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

After the storm comes the calm. But contrary to the famous proverb, the brain's neurons enter a period of calm before the ...

Bridget Smith-Konter is a Northern Arizona University researcher who studies the San Andreas fault. And her newest research ...