Recently I looked up the earliest surviving motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene, which dates back to 1888. Four figures, two men and two women, walk around a yard with quick, jerky steps. It lasts ...

Tax administrations globally face difficulties keeping up with modern economies and sophisticated tax evasion tactics. Traditional rule-based systems often fall short in detecting these tactics ...

Using catalytic chemistry, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have achieved dynamic control of artificial membranes, enabling life-like membrane behavior. By employing an artificial ...

Shraddha Lall was affiliated with The Conversation U.S. as a AAAS Mass Media Science Fellow for summer 2025. As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like the real thing – a breakthrough that could transform computing, medicine, ...

The authors demonstrate with a simple stochastic model that the initial composition of the community is important in achieving a target frequency during the artificial selection of a community.

“The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.” As Trump zeroes in on Greenland, Texas Sen. John Cornyn says 'there's a deal to be made' ...

Cyanobacteria use light to survive, and these organisms are regulated by circadian rhythms–the 24-hour biological cycle that is found in many animals, and which helps control fundamental processes ...

National security leaders rarely get to choose what to care about and how much to care about it. They are more often subjects of circumstances beyond their control. The September 11 attacks reversed ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

When is an AI system intelligent enough to be called artificial general intelligence (AGI)? According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that traits could be passed from one generation to the next fascinated early ...