Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

The FBI's week-long investigation into "suspicious materials" found at an Irvine home stems from a college student's science ...

Tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

A homemade science lab in a rented luxury home near the Great Park in Irvine has sparked a heavy, multiday response from an ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could ...

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...