It’s been nearly three years since controversial Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison for gene-hacking human babies — and now, he appears to be hitting back at the rules that led ...

Google on Wednesday said it has adapted its Gemini 2.0 large language model artificial intelligence offering to make it generate novel scientific hypotheses in a fraction of the time taken by teams of ...

The Scientist’s Top Innovations competition showcases the latest advances in life science techniques and products. Each year’s winners represent the technologies poised to propel research and ...

Over the past few years, Google has embarked on a quest to jam generative AI into every product and initiative possible. Google has robots summarizing search results, interacting with your apps, and ...

James Zou used virtual AI ‘scientists’ to find novel covid-19 treatments. Now, he’s having AI review and present all of the research at a controversial new conference. In October, a new academic ...

Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge ...

About 19 positions will be cut, including those in offices focused on technology policy and diversity, equity and inclusion. By Kenneth Chang NASA is eliminating its chief scientist and other roles as ...

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there. President Trump’s ...

On a Sunday morning in April, pathologist Thomas Montine ran one of the most surreal meetings of his life. In an online test interface for a system called the Virtual Lab, Montine constructed a team ...

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.” —Plato In the first week of my postdoctoral fellowship, David B. Sacks, my lifelong mentor and senior investigator in the ...