Overview:  Cleaning, sorting, building basic models, and manual reports are being handled in the background. The future role ...

An international research group including Japan has discovered a factory-like system in cells that prevents insulin ...

The expansion of scientific knowledge has led to breakthroughs on some key challenges and to important societal evolutions. Yet, science’s full potential will remain untapped unless there is a ...

Rather than mope, Foster decided that he would dive, every day, in a cold, underwater kelp forest near his home in Cape Town, South Africa. It was on one such dive that he encountered a common octopus ...

Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of the universe and, in efforts to determine its existence and nature, a new study ...

A team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London and University College London has shown that our hands have a much greater sensitivity than previously thought, to the po ...

India’s reliance on jugaad in computing leads to fragile, unreliable systems. True progress requires rigorous computer ...

Open science is a set of principles and practices that aim to make scientific research from all fields accessible to everyone for the benefits of scientists and society as a whole. Open science is ...

A century ago, people needed help to understand science. Much as they do today. Then as now, it wasn’t always easy to sort the accurate from the erroneous. Mainstream media, then as now, regarded ...

The push for STEM initiatives — coding workshops for elementary school children, or extended-day science experiments for middle school students — reigns at the forefront of the education conversation ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Toss Gascoigne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming Earth? Members of the IPCC, the 2007 peace winner, write on climate change Editor's note: This story was ...