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Quantum technology is a uniquely poor fit for biology. It requires extreme precision and clean environments free of interference, which couldn’t be further from the environment inside a living cell. Scientists have trouble maintaining the state of a qubit inside enormous, shielded quantum devices, but now researchers from the University …

Our efforts to find hints of extraterrestrial life have been focused on Mars, but an increasing number of scientists are turning to Venus as a potential home for alien organisms. At a recent meeting of astronomers in the UK, two separate teams presented evidence for potential biosignatures in the clouds …

Every company even tangentially involved in technology is currently obsessed with generative AI, which has led to some fascinating and occasionally useful tools. However, the cost to access some of these services is surprisingly high. Training and running AI models are hugely expensive, but new research from the University of …

But what if doctors could reduce wait times and the odds of rejection by having a heart custom printed for each patient? That’s the goal of five biomedical engineers at MIT, who have found a way to 3D print functioning hearts. Each of their soft robotic hearts can be configured …

A team of researchers from the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has sequenced the genomes of two living seadragon species: the leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) and the weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus). The leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Image credit: Joseph C. …

Sequencing an entirely complete human genome has been the work of decades. Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project (HGP) declared their work finished, with an asterisk. Even a decade later, fully eight percent of the genome — so-called “junk DNA” — was beyond our understanding. But the idea of …

Robotic exploration of the red planet has taught us a great deal about our nearest planetary neighbor, and NASA’s Curiosity rover had an outsized role in accomplishing that. Its successor, a very similar rover called Perseverance, arrived on Mars last year. Perseverance sports an impressive array of instruments for studying …

Robotic exploration of the red planet has taught us a great deal about our nearest planetary neighbor, and NASA’s Curiosity rover had an outsized role in accomplishing that. Its successor, a very similar rover called Perseverance, arrived on Mars last year. Perseverance sports an impressive array of instruments for studying …

For the first time in human history, scientists have watched a core-collapse supernova from beginning to end, in real time. The progenitor star was a red supergiant of about ten solar masses, some 120 million light-years away. In its final months, the dying star’s brightness flared dramatically as it cast …

Sorry to our fellow hopeful space nerds, but we have to burst everyone’s warp bubble. Despite recent reports that scientists have “accidentally created a warp bubble,” it looks like warp speed is still a few baby steps away. But all hope is not lost: a group of scientists led by …