The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each ...

Mar. 26, 2026 Deepfake X-rays created by AI are now convincing enough to fool both doctors and AI models. In tests, radiologists had limited success identifying fake images, especially when they ...

Mitochondrial genes in most crops are inherited maternally. In this issue of Nature Plants, Gonzalez-Duran et al. report that mitochondrial genes can be inherited from both parents. Using a dated ...

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President Trump took the unprecedented step of sitting in on the Supreme Court arguments over his order ending birthright ...

As the country looks to commercial companies to drive innovation, it has a golden opportunity to support open science and increase its output in key areas.

Feb. 14, 2026 Scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered the molecular “switch” that powers sperm for their final, high-speed dash toward an egg. By tracking how sperm use glucose as fuel, ...