During World War II, the Germans used an encryption device called the Enigma, which Polish and English mathematicians worked ...

Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost says that as AI tools allow more people to code, other skills will become more important.

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that ...

A group of Chinese scientists has created powerful new tools that allow them to edit large chunks of DNA with incredible accuracy—and without leaving any trace. Using a mix of advanced protein design, ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 ...

Messenger RNA vaccines, or mRNA, differ from traditional ones. Instead of growing a virus and weakening it to allow the body to engage its natural defenses, mRNA vaccines use pieces of genetic code to ...

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods ...

China's Great Firewall upgrade aimed to tighten control, but new research shows it opened serious vulnerabilities instead.

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA ...