Game wardens sat in the dark for five nights in Cody waiting for a serial poacher to strike again. On the fifth night, they ...

Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

A few years ago, Cortical Labs announced that it had trained about 800,000 cells cultured on a computer chip to play “Pong,” ...

It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...

Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of ethanol annually—leverage microorganisms ...

Technique that inserts the genome of one bacterial species into the ‘dead’ cells of another could open doors for synthetic ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then ...

Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 27 March 2026. In this episode: 00:18 ‘Zombie cells’ revived with genome transplant. Nature: ‘Zombie cells’ return from the dead — a ...

In silico analysis of five industrial microorganisms identifies optimal strains and metabolic engineering strategies for producing 235 valuable chemicals. Climate change and the depletion of fossil ...