This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic biology and our definition of “life.” By K. R. Callaway In a lab at the ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from scratch after building ...

PITTSBURGH — The Citizen Science Lab cut the ribbon on its new innovation center in the heart of the Hill District on Friday. Local leaders, including Congresswoman Summer Lee and Allegheny County ...

Data centers popping up all over Illinois are sucking up millions of gallons of water a day, at a pace that the state can't keep up with. With the Chicago area situated next to the massive Lake ...

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A University of Michigan study found that common nitrile and ...

Faculty develop methods for structured and unstructured biomedical data that advance statistical inference, machine learning, causal inference, and algorithmic modeling. Their work delivers principled ...

More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center. By Karen Zraick See more of our coverage in your search ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

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Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.