Scientists have modeled the first step in human development in a laboratory with the goal of…
To crash or swerve? Study reveals which actions taken by self-driving cars are morally defensible
Researchers asked the public what they believed would be the most morally and ethically sound behavior…
AI tool automatically reveals how to write apps that drain less battery
Researchers have created a new tool, called 'DiffProf,' that uses artificial intelligence to automatically decide for…
Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and…
Improving paleotemperature reconstruction: Swiss lakes as a model system
For years, scientists have been trying to determine the climate of the past in order to…
Gene mutation points to new way to fight diabetes, obesity, heart disease
Researchers say they have discovered a gene mutation that slows the metabolism of sugar in the…
Maximizing the carbon and biodiversity benefits of restoration along rivers and streams
Restoring forests has become a world-wide strategy for simultaneously addressing the challenges of climate change and…
Scientists mimic the earliest stages of human development
Human embryos start as a tiny mass of cells that are all the same. The first…
Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, study finds
Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and…
Scientists go ‘back to the future,’ create flies with ancient genes to study evolution
Scientists at New York University and the University of Chicago have created fruit flies carrying reconstructed…