With FlexOlmo, people can train AI without handing over their data. They can even remove their contribution after the model is complete.

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

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

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.

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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 ...

CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute. The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off. It’s effective, yes. But it’s like putting an ...

Viewing consciousness through the lens of a memory system could provide new clues to brain disorders like epilepsy and dementia.

This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity. It sounds like déjà vu—brain-machine interfaces also lived rent free in my head in last ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...