Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborating institutions recently built ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell, from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and ...

Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

We're moving into Day 3 of Nvidia GTC, the chip-making giant's biggest conference of the year. CEO Jensen Huang took the ...

For nearly half a century, astronomers have believed that stars like our sun eventually ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult ...

Quantum AI may become the most consequential technology in human history. Yet it feels like someone else's problem to us.

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of ...

NASA explains why asteroid Bennu appeared different than expected, as OSIRIS REx data and lab analysis reveal cracked rocks ...