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As one of the laureates put it, AI's potential for accelerating scientific discovery makes it "one of the most transformative technologies in human history". But what will this transformation ...

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A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas ...

and for the development of an inductive logic which brought the subject into more vital relation with the methods of scientific investigation. In more recent times, logical theory has made ...

“George Loudon’s insatiable curiosity for the natural and scientific worlds soon guided him to uncover the beauty and magic within objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences ...

Researchers have derived a formula for viral behavior in the Wild Cards, a science fiction series written by a collection of authors about an alien virus called the Wild Card that mutates human DNA.

Scientific American spoke with Zeldovich about the differences between bacteriophages and antibiotics, the history of bacteriophage experimentation, and the therapy’s potential future regulation ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is my third time honoring what I see as the year’s most important scientific and technological advances. In 2022, my theme was the principle of ...

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said, in the deadliest day since Israel’s truce with Hezbollah took effect. In ...

Here are seven scientific discoveries from this year that ... but they revealed that the clam’s method was the optimal design. In the future, engineers could mimic the mollusk’s construction ...