I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis.

With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life

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

Punch the monkey hits major milestone—but what does it really mean?

Viral baby monkey’s new behavior sparks questions about imitation.

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

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 ...
Discover Wildlife

It's 2,350 miles long, spans 31 US states and is home to a 100kg animal with a tongue that looks like a worm

The Mississippi River flows for around 2,350 miles through the heart of the US. It drains an area of 1.2 million square miles ...