Experimental models of disease are used to investigate processes thought to be involved in human diseases, and to evaluate and select drug candidates that affect these processes to support their ...

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of.

This week’s news roundup explores how the brain is affected by pregnancy, the way “scuba diving” lizards breathe underwater, and much more. According to the American Cancer Society, Black ...

October 8, 2024 • The Atlantic hurricane season isn't over yet. Get ahead of the next storm with these emergency preparedness tips to protect you, your family and your home.

And Erwin Schrödinger famously illustrated the strangeness of quantum physics with a thought experiment involving a cat that is neither dead nor alive. So it hardly seems surprising that ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — A chip-based 'tractor beam' can trap and manipulate biological particles using a tightly focused beam of light emitted from a silicon-photonics chip. The device could help ...

Nelson, Robert G. and Beil, Richard O. 1995. A Classroom Experiment on Oligopolies. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol. 27, Issue. 1, p. 263.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. October 1, 2024 • Emissions from anesthesia are one of the largest sources of ...

At first glance at these images, you'd be forgiven for mistaking them as stills from the latest movie in the Dune franchise. But the images could soon become a reality, according to Airspeeder.

That was the revolutionary idea behind Ireland’s “transition year” — an experiment piloted in 1974 and adopted as part of the curriculum in most schools, state and private, since 1994.

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? What if the world as we know it isn't actually real? Could we really be ...