Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

They are not quite alive, yet not convincingly dead, and they may soon be prescribed alongside, or even instead of, the pills in your medicine cabinet. These strange entities, from rod-shaped genetic ...

For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

A mysterious RNA molecule found only in breast cancer led researchers on a six-year hunt that uncovered an entire hidden layer of cancer biology. The story began with T3p, a tiny RNA molecule found in ...

Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

The smartest cow ever lives in Austria and uses tools to solve problems, challenging what we know about cattle intelligence.

Key TakeawaysEcoFABs are takeout-box-sized plastic chambers that give scientists a reproducible way to study plants and their ...

According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...