Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa's Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

President Trump has utilized a decades-old law, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, to impose up to 15% import tariffs. This provision allows for temporary surcharges on goods, bypassing lengthy ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

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Project Psyche set a goal of sequencing genomes of 11,000 moths and butterflies. With 1,000 completed, the goal now seems achievable.

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their biological effects are complex, multiscale, and poorly characterized. This ...

A multivariate analysis of electroencephalography activity reveals super-additive enhancements to the neural encoding of audiovisual stimuli, providing new insights into how the brain integrates ...