Research animals — from mice, to rabbits, to monkeys — still underpin much of medical research. But their usefulness as models for humans has always been limited. As Harvard bioengineer Don Ingber ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

For more than a decade, MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has used artificial intelligence to create new materials. As the technology ...

Matthew Troia, a UT San Antonio assistant professor, was awareded the distinguished Faculty Early Career Development Program ...

Geologist Uri Schattner and entrepreneur Moti Shatner penned their views on adapting the startup mindset to drive paradigm ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

With the rapid development of GPT-based models, educational chatbots are no longer limited to scripted dialogs. They can now support open-ended interaction and inquiry-based learning. In a study ...

There's been a long running partnership where we are really invested in how our tools can contribute to scientific discovery, ...

Scientists showed for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability previously thought to ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

Ryan Milton, a fourth-year doctoral student in nuclear physics at UC Riverside, has been awarded a U.S. Department of ...