Computer programs are now essential for the analysis of large population genetics data sets that are increasingly being generated. We review 24 such programs here, and list their main features, ...

Rather than wait for bacteria to develop resistance to new drugs, researchers have created a computer program that puts them on the offense. The algorithm, explained in a study published last month in ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

A Princeton chemist has developed a general mathematical system for designing materials that perform two functions at once, even when the desired properties sometimes conflict with each other.

How to make artificial intelligence more approachable for ordinary mortals — that is, people who are neither programmers nor IT admins nor machine learning scientists — is a topic very much in vogue ...

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...