University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Stephen Strittmatter (Contributed photo / Yale University) A Yale-led team of scientists has joined a worldwide effort to find ...

For decades, the starship Enterprise has been shorthand for impossible speed, a sleek symbol of television fantasy rather than engineering reality. Now a growing body of warp drive research is forcing ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Two key documents from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the long-standing finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias and distortions, according to dozens of ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human... Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting ...

Timothy Weihs is charged with thinking about the unthinkable: the cataclysmic destructive force of a nuclear detonation and the lethality of chemical and biological weapons. Dark topics, indeed, but ...