2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (814+ words) Researchers at MIT have uncovered new chemical clues in extremely old rocks that suggest some of the earliest animals on Earth were likely ancestors of modern sea sponges. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (793+ words) Now, researchers at MIT report evidence that some forms of life may have learned to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before the GOE. Their findings could represent some of the earliest signs of aerobic respiration on Earth. Their…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (359+ words) To accomplish this, the researchers created a machine learning platform called SIGNET. Unlike traditional tools that only detect genes that appear to move together, SIGNET is designed to uncover true cause-and-effect relationships. Using this approach, the team identified important biological…...

3+ week, 54+ min ago  (600+ words) The findings were published in Nature Communications, where the study was also selected for Editors' Highlights. Inspired by Octopus Skin and Living Systems Sun, the project's principal investigator, said the concept was inspired by cephalopods such as octopuses, which can…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (829+ words) The study, published in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), points to a significant shift. Generative AI systems have now reached a level where they can outperform the average human on certain creativity measures. At the same time, the most creative people…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (928+ words) Foams appear in everyday life as soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise. For many years, scientists believed foams behaved much like glass, with their tiny components locked into disordered but essentially fixed positions. New research…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (444+ words) Beauty With Structure and Purpose One key outcome of this approach is the ability to derive exact formulas for kernel functions. These include the Green, Neumann, and Schwarz kernels, which are important tools for solving boundary value problems in physics…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (132+ words) Two Paths Begin to Converge A new study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) suggests these two long-standing efforts may finally be coming together. How Chemistry Enables Multiple Functions A Theory That Explains and Predicts Behavior Toward Learning Built…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (552+ words) Researchers at Duke University have created a new artificial intelligence framework designed to uncover clear, easy-to-understand rules behind some of the most complicated dynamics seen in nature and modern technology. The system is inspired by the work of history's great…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (353+ words) Most people first encounter the irrational number " (pi) -- commonly approximated as 3.14 and extending infinitely without repeating -- during school lessons about circles. In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar constant far beyond the classroom, with powerful supercomputers now…...