Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

For years, Darwin residents have been concerned about toxic chemicals emitted by the city’s two gas export facilities. In ...

A comprehensive new review published in The Lancet affirms that currently approved mRNA vaccines are safe and highly ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation ...

An analysis of projects and local opposition highlights the growing tensions surrounding AI infrastructure in rural ...

An MIT-led research program aimed at creating future microsystems capable of sustainably transmitting data with greater ...

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them ...

How nostalgia-evoking music helps us stay in touch with our past selves, and retrieve "the good" from "the good old days." ...

The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income ...

A rocket will drop from the plane, then ascend to deliver a spacecraft called LINK to low-Earth orbit. LINK’s mission is to ...