Ice cream has a simple ingredient list – just cream and sugar, but as anyone who’s tried to make it knows, this frozen dessert can easily become a sticky, icy mess. Food scientist Douglas Goff ...

Researchers have now uncovered the 3D structure of the RNA enzyme SAMURI. Their study provides insights into the development of ribozymes and the evolution of catalytically active RNA.

Metamaterials are fast emerging from the research lab and turning up in real products. Claire Dancer and Alastair Hibbins tell Matin Durrani how the UK Metamaterials Network is helping to boost ...

Researchers developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of AlpahFold3, in an effort to democratize biomedical ...

OpenAI and Microsoft define AGI as AI software that can generate $100 billion in profit. Stefano Guidi/Getty OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial ...

Above: A custom-made barrel enzyme, a type of protein seen as redoubling the efficiency of industrial processes.Credit... Supported by By William J. Broad Artificial intelligence often gets ...

The psychedelic drug psilocybin briefly erases people’s neural fingerprints, the baseline brain activity unique to an individual. Some of the biggest changes occur in an area called the default ...

In an effort to improve American diets, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday released a new definition of what it means for a food to qualify as “healthy.” Products like fruit ...

From a total solar eclipse that captivated our continent to record temperatures that scorched the planet, these were the biggest moments of the year Stories in a wide variety of scientific ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants Jay Bhattacharya, a physician-scientist and economist at Stanford University, to lead the National Institutes of Health. The NIH is a global powerhouse of science.