The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to ...

In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa on July 6, 2026, completing a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage to one of the strangest objects in Earth's neighborhood ...

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis explores the idea that language helps shape our worldviews and perceptions in many ways.

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

The feature adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s viral novel of the same name is set to star Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor Prime Video will continue its romance streak into ...

Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images/Marco Iacobucci/Zuma Press/David Paul Morris/Bloomberg ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Bateman (Murder on the Orient Express) has landed the male lead in The Love Hypothesis, Amazon MGM Studios and MRC‘s rom-com based on the New York Times bestseller by Ali Hazelwood.