When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to ...

With great science come great sacrifices. Including the fatal ones. Today, lab safety is a big part of any scientific endeavor. We seldom stop to think about this, however, as the product of various ...

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Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Other teams are investigating how surface area and velocity during impact might govern charge transfer, and how the breaking ...

Rochester Institute of Technology scientists and a team of international collaborators recently completed an intricate set of experiments that will help improve remote sensing technology used by ...

The ancient Greeks were the first recorded people to dissect animals and study their insides for science some 2,400 years ago, and the practice hasn't stopped. Today, fish, dogs, cats, invertebrates, ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

After 97,000 experiments, scientists expected predictable results — instead, they got something that shouldn’t exist. The ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

In a radical experiment that has some experts questioning what it means to be "alive," scientists have restored brain circulation and some cell activity in pigs' brains hours after the animals died in ...

Biological experiments are generating increasingly large and complex sets of data. This has made it difficult to reproduce experiments at other research laboratories in order to confirm - or refute - ...