A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

What we put on our plates may matter more for the climate than we realize. Researchers found that most people, especially in ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically ...