A paper built entirely by artificial intelligence did not arrive with a flashy headline. At its core, the study delivers a surprisingly flat result: a promising technique that does nothing to improve ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

Scientists often come up with creative experiments to learn more about marine life and underwater ecosystems. From tracking how different species of sharks respond to different sounds to studying how ...

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

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a major physics experiment has reached a critical milestone, enabling detectors to operate ...

The Young Scientists and Developers in Israel returns for its 29th year amid war, as part of National Science Week events.

To test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial ideas, scientists created a laboratory version of a black hole using sound instead of gravity. After repeating the experiment 97,000 times, they ...

On a few special Saturdays out of the year, visitors to the St. Louis Science Center are treated with a mind-blowing event: The Amazing Brain Carnival. Featuring a variety of activities for guests to ...

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

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...