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A thousand miles south of Hawaii, the air at 45,000 feet above the equatorial Pacific was a shimmering gumbo of thick storm clouds and icy cirrus haze, all cooked up […]

Artificial intelligence researchers are closing in on a new benchmark for comparing the human mind and a machine. On Wednesday, DeepMind, a research organization that operates under the umbrella of […]

A physicist at the California Institute of Technology has found a way to create what he calls “identical twin” snowflakes in his lab.

A major project in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast is monitoring a steaming ridge full of living and mineral wonders on the ocean floor circling Earth.

The Energy Department and the Pentagon have been readying a weapon with a build-it-smaller approach, setting off a philosophical clash in the world of nuclear arms.

Some simple changes in ancient organisms might have given rise to a world of multicellular animals.

Three research groups, working independently of one another, reported in the journal Science on Thursday that a powerful new gene-editing technique could treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice.

Neuroscientists have struggled to understand exactly how the circadian clock affects our minds. After all, researchers can’t simply pop open a subject’s skull and monitor his brain cells over the […]

The technique involves propelling a gene of choice throughout a population. It hasn’t been tested in the wild yet, but has worked in the laboratory.