Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you

If you’ve eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty…

Whale rescuers face grim task in Australia mass stranding

After days wading through chilly waters, surrounded by the pained cries of hundreds of stranded whales…

US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20

After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on…

Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought

The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the…

The male Y chromosome does more than we thought

New light is being shed on a little-known role of Y chromosome genes, specific to males,…

3-D camera earns its stripes

Stripes are in fashion this season at a Rice University lab, where researchers use them to…

Simpler models may be better for determining some climate risk

Typically, computer models of climate become more and more complex as researchers strive to capture more…

Singing sexy back: How sparrows adapted to COVID-19 shutdown

As the streets of San Francisco emptied out in the first months of the pandemic, the…

Scientists discover a natural food pigment that can distinguish between living and dead cells in cell cultures

Conducting studies in vitro—a Latin term that literally means “in the glass”—is essential in the fields…

Tracking shape changes in Amazon fish after major river is dammed

A team of biologists led by Craig Albertson and Ph.D. student Chaise Gilbert at the University…