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A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

Andrej Karpathy warns that AI’s rapid evolution is refactoring programming itself, pushing developers to adapt faster than ...

A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust ...

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Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...