Science Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories Kids form fleeting memories at around 12 months, even as their brains are rapidly rewiring themselves.

The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

In some situations, our sense of time expands. We slip outside our normal consciousness, and into a different time-world. Why does this happen?

Instead of being invented by different people independently, many key inventions were discovered once then shared.

Dr. Duxin Sun is the associate dean for research and the Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He serves as ...

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

A new bioprinter uses ultrasound to non-invasively 3D print tissues, biosensors, and medication depots deep in the body.

Robotics This Robotic Hand’s Electronic Skin Senses Exactly How Hard It Needs to Squeeze The hand can gently pick up anything from plastic cups to pineapples.

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

The approach uses machine vision to 3D print structures with multiple materials, from hard, bone-like substances to stuff that's more like soft tissues.

Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.