The green sulfur bacterium makes its home in the chilly waters of the Black Sea. To eek out its lonely existence, this life form scavenges energy from the feeble sunlight available to it at a depth of ...

Computer systems that emulate key aspects of human problem solving are commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI). This field has seen massive progress over the last years. Most notably, ...

AI is changing the field of synthetic biology and how we engineer biology. It’s helping engineers design new ways to design genetic circuits -- and it could leave a remarkable impact on the future of ...

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. Every second, trillions of watts of solar energy ...

The mission of Bowdoin College's biology department is to offer an educational program that informs, challenges, and stimulates undergraduates in a broad range of biological inquiry at many levels of ...