Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists ...

Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

A multimillion-dollar mobile space lab designed and largely fabricated in Kahului has been “working very well” on the International Space Station for a little over a week, despite some “unexpected ...

In many communities around the world, students’ ability and enthusiasm to pursue STEM fields in their high school and college careers is limited by a lack of resources which prevent them from ...

“CRISPR is an elegant bioengineered system derived from bacteria that has reshaped the gene-editing field and earned the 2022 ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...

A friend’s daughter who is taking a biology course at her college has a lab course where they conduct experiments on animals, mostly white lab rats that I think are bred for the purpose. They have ...