I have this idea of a communal brain.” David Baker, PhD, told me as I sat in his office at the University of Washington (UW) ...

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Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that ...

With the aid of physical forces—in this case, sound—it is possible to actively steer the formation of engineered tissue. For ...

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With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...

Frances Arnold on directed enzyme evolution: random mutation plus smart screening, and why it changed enzyme engineering and ...