This month, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir embarked on her second journey to the ...

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.

Turns out this scenario, knowns as the gorilla experiment, quite probably applies to the bizarre scene Wednesday between ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Larry Carbone offers an insider's perspective on the ethics of using animals in invasive research, the need for more compassion, and what must be done immediately on their behalf.

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

The researchers found they could hack the AI’s creativity by turning this knob. As they cranked the temperature up, the ...