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Osaka, Japan – Kirigami is a variation on the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, whereby cuts are used to create three-dimensional structures. For example, pop-up cards created from a sheet of ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

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

Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have discovered, telling AFP they used it to make a sourdough bread. More than 5,300 ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Vayu Hill-Maini's lab has created a new cheese, or at least something that tastes like cheese, but is actually made from food waste. The bioengineer, who runs a lab at Stanford University in ...

Generative AI introduces a host of exciting new possibilities for learning, but also presents some significant potential pitfalls. Educational institutions of all kinds are currently working (and no ...