A new study sheds light on how the ancestors of modern land plants survived one of the most challenging aspects of life outside water: exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. By examining a ...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks to members of the press outside the “AI Insight Forum” at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers are ...

Every time a white blood cell engulfs a bacterium, a neuron extends a projection to connect with a neighboring cell, or when a cancer cell forcefully squeezes through tissue to spread, the cell must ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

As recently as the mid-20th century, aging was described by Nobel Prize laureate Peter Medawar as "an unsolved problem in ...

A graphic prepared by Wroclaw Medical University highlighting selected facts discussed in a review article by Dr. Piotr Chmielewski published in Biogerontology. The article examines current theories ...

Advances in structural biology have allowed scientists to determine molecular structures with atomic-level detail, sometimes yielding static snapshots that do not reflect the dynamism of proteins.

As large language models become more widely used in clinical and healthcare settings, selecting the most appropriate reasoning mode remains a significant challenge. Medical question answering tasks ...

To protect against bioweapons, Anthropic told The Verge Fable’s ‘overly conservative’ safeguards block ‘most queries tied to biology work.’ To protect against bioweapons, Anthropic told The Verge ...

Language switching exemplifies a real-world model of adaptive control, as bilinguals select languages in response to continuously changing contextual demands. Although the Adaptive Control Hypothesis ...

Abstract: Video question answering (VideoQA), a critical task in vision-language understanding and reasoning, encounters significant challenges in integrating visual concepts for compositional ...

We present a modern formulation of Embodied Question Answering (EQA) as the task of understanding an environment well enough to answer questions about it in natural language. An agent can achieve such ...