Here’s a type of fusion food you don’t see every day: fluffy, steamed grains of rice, chock-full of beef cells.It sounds Frankenstein. But the...

IntroductionThe discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes — about as many...

David Gosset1,2,3, Daniel Grier1,4,5, Alex Kerzner1,2, and Luke Schaeffer1,2,61Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada2Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada3Perimeter...

Heavy industry is one of the most stubbornly difficult areas of the economy to decarbonize. But new research suggests emissions could be reduced by...

Lab-grown meat could present a kinder and potentially greener alternative to current livestock farming. New specially engineered meat cells could finally bring costs down...

Depression is like waking up to a rainy, dreary morning, every single day. Activities that previously lightened the mood lose their joy. Instead, every...

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With its row of glossy chambers connected by squiggly tubing, the AI-powered setup looks more like a futuristic brewery than a chemistry lab.Yet when...

Why do we age? And how can we slow down the clock?This year, we inched closer to answers. Longevity research continued decoding the core...

Psychedelics made their mark this year—not as counterculture party drugs, but as a new paradigm in mental health therapy.In June, Australia became the first...

One inescapable word dominated biomedicine this year: Ozempic.Physicians were amazed at the drug’s efficacy in treating diabetes, for which it is FDA approved, and...

Many experts believe more general forms of artificial intelligence will be impossible without giving AI a body in the real world. A new approach...