From basic research to superweapons, pushing science to its limits is costly. You won't believe how much went into these ...

On July 9, 1968, eight white mice entered what was supposed to be paradise. None of their descendants would ever leave, or survive. The enclosure known as Universe 25 would become one of science’s ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. Researchers at Australian ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason ...