Shilpa Vijay is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Her work explores how air moves over complex surfaces at high speeds. In this Postdoc Portrait, she discusses how she is fueled by her ...

A team of researchers in Japan has developed an artificial intelligence tool called YORU that can identify specific animal ...

The first clue as to how the autonomic nerves work came from Luigi Galvani’s classic discovery in the 1780s that a spark from an electrostatic generator made the severed leg of a frog twitch. This ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

The race to have vaccines ready for distribution within three months of the next pandemic breaking out needs to take into account the possibility of an AI being used to artificially create a virus or ...

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.

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

THE PHILIPPINES fell six spots to its worst-ever ranking in 2025 in a global corruption perceptions index by Transparency International, as the country grappled with a corruption scandal that slowed ...

India's budget boosts space research funding, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign telescopes and enhance domestic capabilities.

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...