Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks ...

A startup founded by former Meta researchers is creating an alternative evolutionary path using the most powerful ...

It’s been trained on 771 billion unique tokens – the AI term for a unit of data – taken from databases of natural protein ...

According to the researchers, this was like giving the model 500 million years of evolutionary knowledge, which allowed it to start with basic code that evolved over virtual time into a modern ...

Leveraging the power of large language models, evolutionary biologists have successfully simulated 500 million years of evolution. Called the EvolutionaryScale Model 3, or ESM3, this multimodal ...