Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Even after hospitals strip out names and zip codes, modern AI can sometime still work out who patients are. Great news for insurance companies; not so much for healthcare recipients. New research from ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...

This visualization shows moderately large pressure fluctuations within a 35-trillion-grid-point turbulence simulation, ...

Some doctors regularly see patients who have consulted an A.I. model for a first opinion. Surveys have found that about one ...

The health trial by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has been suspended by Bissau-Guinean authorities.

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating ...

Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins and ...

A randomized benchmarking (RB) experiment consists of the generation of random Clifford circuits on the given qubits such that the unitary computed by the circuits is ...

According to Reuters, Instacart is currently getting the regulatory equivalent of a throat-clearing from the FTC, which has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand regarding ...