Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

In some situations, our sense of time expands. We slip outside our normal consciousness, and into a different time-world. Why does this happen?

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Instead of being invented by different people independently, many key inventions were discovered once then shared.

Dr. Duxin Sun is the associate dean for research and the Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He serves as ...

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The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

Many AI experts believe there is a chance human-level artificial intelligence will arrive within the next decades—some believe it will exist much sooner.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Computers and artificial intelligence have changed our world immensely, but we are still at the early stages of this history.

OpenAI researchers outline a new way to measure AI efficiency, and using their measure, they show AI has been getting more efficient at a wicked pace.