Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how scientists understand proteins—these are working molecules that drive nearly every process in the human body, from cell growth and immune defense to ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a deep learning algorithm that ...

A lab on Harvard campus that made real progress in diagramming each stage of the disease had its $7M grant pulled. The funding was eventually restored but not in time for the next round of research.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar that can observe cloud structures at the scale of 1 cm. The ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

RNA interference using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has become a mainstay of functional gene characterization and has generated over a dozen FDA-approved therapeutics and drugs in late-stage ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The chair of the House Select Committee on China said Thursday that a licensing agreement for use of the TikTok algorithm, as part of a deal by China-based ByteDance to ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA this week will lay off about 550 employees — more than 10% of JPL's workforce — as part of a restructuring. The job cuts "are not related to the current ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off 550 employees this week, the latest round of job cuts at the space science center. In a brief statement released Oct. 13, Dave Gallagher, ...