The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Stanford researchers have combined two microscopy techniques to create a one-of-a-kind instrument that can show cell ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the defining technologies of what economists and policymakers describe as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is an era in which digital, physical, ...

While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

What if staying alive depends on minimizing surprise? The Free Energy Principle suggests that feeling itself may be what that process is like from the inside.