This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Pattern matching' is one of venture capital’s most pernicious habits. New research debunks it, and offers investors objective ...

In order to rank inside AI answers, companies need to structure content, implement metadata and build authority. Here's the quick checklist: • Publish authoritative content: Ensure it's long-form, ...

White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun. These extremely dense objects are degenerate stars because their structure ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Through its (near-)consistent excellence, innovation, and longevity, Resident Evil games have earned their crown as the king of survival horror. Capcom debuted its world of mutants and mercenaries in ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... The geometric code is the blueprint for how DNA forms nanoscale packing domains that create physical "memory nodes" — ...

If you are travelling to India soon, be aware that there are new arrival requirements in place. International visitors to the country are now required to submit personal details via an online form ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...