Faced with a navigational challenge, neural networks spontaneously evolved units resembling the grid cells that help living animals find their way.
Using a brain-computer interface, scientists are beginning to learn why learning is hard.
Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe.
Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to researchers who made it possible to see proteins and other biomolecules at an atomic level of detail.
Three U.S. biologists share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into the molecular mechanism that drives circadian rhythm.
To create a good living replica of the human brain, your best hope may be to let “organoid” components assemble it for you.
The legendary marine biologist discusses why she’s excited about the coming era of ocean science, the shortsightedness of maritime exploitation and diving in the Arctic in her 80s.
To assess the ocean’s health, ecology’s “rugged individualists” learned to get with the big data program.