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

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

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 ...

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. In the past two years, they have demonstrated that they can analyse data, design experiments and even come up with new hypotheses.

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 ...

Most people trust scientists to test new ideas on animals or in controlled labs. But some researchers decided that the best test subjects were themselves. These scientists put their own bodies at risk ...