SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Making high-performance proteins for medicines or consumer products can take trial after trial of tweaks, experiments and fine-tuning. A new machine learning framework squeezes all that into a single round of testing.The technique, called MULTI-evolve, predicts how proteins will...

Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how air moves around planes, rockets, and other kinds of aerospace vehicles. Air is invisible, but our understanding of how...

A SpaceX rocket that burned up after re-entering the atmosphere unleashed a plume of vaporised metals over Europe, a...

These days, many people can skip the dreaded Pap smear in favor of a far less invasive and more private way to screen for cervical cancer: disposable, DIY swabs that can be used to test for high-risk variants of...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have the smallest genomes known for any organism. The findings further muddy the...

It happens every day — a motorist heading across town checks a navigation app to see how...

Biology has long been used in agriculture, medicine, and materials. The 21st century has brought increased investment...

Many people find their flattened faces cute, but among dogs bred with a squished visage, 11 percent or less of some breeds can breathe easily.The findings, published February 18 in PLOS One, evaluate a major health cost of breeding...

Someone inhales fungal spores. They feel strange. They might get a bit bitey. Possibly a bit dead. And then…...

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