Astrophysicist James Stone at the Institute for Advanced Study is seeking to understand central problems in astrophysics — how matter accretes and how stars form in the turbulent interstellar medium.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

This story is part of Sixth Tone’s 10-year anniversary series, Ten Years in Transition. SHANGHAI – Thirty meters underground on the outskirts of Shanghai, engineers are painstakingly fitting together ...

Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that power most ...

The Oberth class has earned one of the worst reputations in Starfleet, but this reputation obscures the ship's true purpose and the reasons for its seemingly cursed history. The class rarely appears ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treehub, a Stanford-adjacent residency backed by the AI Health Fund, today launched as the first boutique program built to scout and back early-stage founders ...