Some science is not built for quick results. The pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dropping only a handful ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Blue, green, amber: Someone’s eye color immediately attracts our attention. But there’s something unusual about human eyes: ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

A new book draws on ethnography, neurobiology, and primatology to argue that our reduced sleep is not a byproduct of modern ...

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New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a proof of concept for now. Reading time 3 minutes A team of scientists has ...

(via Cleo Abram) In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… ...

Two studies in Nature provide a glimpse of what some are interpreting as humanity’s shrinking role in scientific discovery in Perutz’s own field, molecular biology. Both describe a pivotal step ...