Scientists used an artificial intelligence program to create new viral genomes that are different from any known natural viruses and that targeted specific hosts, according to a new study. The ...

Assistant professor Brian Hie, pictured on the left with a colleague, said of the work "this was new territory for us" Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully ...

Knights of science have long chased a biologic holy grail: transforming a soup of raw chemicals into self-sustaining life. Now, a team led by synthetic biologist Kate Adamala, of the University of ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of ...

For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life. The lab-made synthetic cell ...

Though I’ve taught a variety of grade levels, this year presented a new challenge: teaching high school seniors. Going in, one of my top priorities was to make sure students stayed engaged and focused ...

At its Compile keynote on June 16, Cursor co-founder Michael Truell disclosed that the company is training its first fully self-built AI model — a 1.5-trillion-parameter system pre-trained from ...

.NET MAUI gives teams a practical path to one codebase across iOS, Android, macOS and Windows while keeping platform-specific code organized. MAUI Community Toolkit controls such as CameraView and ...

In brief: An agentic AI system has reportedly designed a complete RISC-V CPU core from scratch in just 12 hours, marking the first time an autonomous agent has built a working CPU from specification ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

Corebridge Financial and Equitable Holdings have agreed to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at about $22 billion, a move the firms say will establish a scaled player spanning retirement, ...