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A long-term study has identified a potential biomarker that could help detect which patients are progressing toward more severe forms of multiple sclerosis. Researchers discovered that a high ratio of CXCL13 to BAFF indi...

Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's complicated

A trio of mRNA molecules could help guard against the harmful effects of aging on immune cells, a study in mice finds.

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how.

The time to build safeguards is before something goes wrong, not after. The post AI Can Now Design Proteins and DNA. Scientists Warn We Need Biosecurity Rules Before Its Too Late. appeared first on SingularityHub.

A new study argues that AI can never be more creative than humans, but many experts argue that AI's output will only ever be as good as its input - with the goalposts shifting as AI improves in the years to come.

Common diabetes drugs may do more than regulate blood sugar-they could also influence how cancers grow, spread, or slow down. Researchers are now unraveling how these medications affect immune function, inflammation, and...

Spotted Lake is a soda lake that evaporates every summer, leaving a white crust with circular brine pools that can appear blue, green or yellow.

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most important features of a quantum particle is whether it is an introvert-a fermion-or an extrovert-...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope - now simulations suggest it could be a primordial black hole, something we ha...

Attention depends on the brains ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when background brain activity is quieter. Scientists found that lowering certain versions of the Homer1 gene ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she created her startling protagonist

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of chimerism

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This collective phenomenon, called superradiance, is a powerful example of cooperation at the quantu...