Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Scientists have dreamt of rationally engineering microorganisms since the 1960s. Back then, while studying the lac operon in Escherichia coli, Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod proposed that cells ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...