Autonomy, by contrast, is about decision‑making and adaptation. The leap from automation to autonomy is not just more actuators; it is a system that can perceive its environment, reason about options, ...

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

Tarun Kapoor is tackling a deceptively tricky biochemical challenge: how to speed up the internal machinery of living cells.

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Xiaomi says it has completed the construction of a new Sports and Health Lab, a large research facility meant to improve the accuracy and reliability of its wearable devices. The lab spans more than 5 ...

Mark Barrocas huddled with a group of employees staring at the dead skin extracted from their colleagues’ pores. Minutes earlier, the chief executive officer of SharkNinja Inc. had halted the product ...

A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up. A.I. has added urgency to ...

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce addictive drinking. The enzyme responsible, KHK, appears to drive both alcohol ...

When you’re one of the 70 million Americans whose digestion is off, it’s understandable to want to do what you can to turn things around quickly. Social media is packed with posts from people who ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules. A central part of this network is folate metabolism, a process that ...