Breakthrough ideas often appear when you least expect them—but studies show there’s more than one way to trigger a “eureka” ...

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells.

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is ...

Low cost science tools are becoming more accessible, but can a dirt cheap spectrometer actually deliver useful results This ...

Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and ...

A new study reveals that AI writing assistants are subtly shifting how humans think, and we are powerless to resist it—even ...

ChatGPT has introduced interactive visual explanations to help users understand maths and science concepts more easily. The feature allows learners to manipulate variables, formulas and graphs in real ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Attosecond pulses enable sub-femtosecond studies of ultrafast electron dynamics. Since 2001, pulse durations have shortened ...

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with ...