One evening in February, I went to hear a lecture at the Baltimore Underground Science Space, a community lab in a former bottle-top factory. Like several dozen other “biospaces” around the country, ...

In 2025, physicists spotted a paradigm-shifting new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and discovered that the Earth’s deep interior may be more connected than previously thought, ...

Rock-munching microbes have a weighty job in the mining industry, extracting metals such as copper and gold from the earth. They could also extract rare-earth elements such as lanthanides, scandium, ...

The company has already used its protein-folding AI, AlphaFold, to generate structures for the human proteome, as well as yeast, fruit flies, mice, and more. Back in December 2020, DeepMind took the ...

From a litter of chirping cheetahs and the birth of a lovable giant panda cub to groundbreaking coral reef research and new strides in animal care, there were many milestones to celebrate this year.

While the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was the most urgent priority, biologists also learned more about how brains process information, how to define individuality and why sleep deprivation kills.

DeepMind may just have cracked one of the grandest challenges in biology. One that rivals the discovery of DNA’s double helix. It could change biomedicine, drug discovery, and vaccine development ...

Philip J. Landrigan, John J. Stegeman, Lora E. Fleming, Denis Allemand, Donald M. Anderson, Lorraine C. Backer, Françoise Brucker-Davis, Nicolas Chevalier, Lilian ...

A simple chain of amino acids folds into a complex three-dimensional structure. A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s ...

Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind Technologies said today it has solved a 50-year-old “grand challenge” in biology by creating software that can predict the atomic ...