NASA scientists are beginning to examine ocean trash from a new perspective, not from ships or beaches, but from orbit. The ...

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained on scientific data to infer ...

Would you be a different person if you had grown up somewhere else? A growing body of research is helping to answer this age-old nature verses nurture question.

Tech advances already show a future of testing in which we might not have to suffer and die while waiting for systems that ...

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements?

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive.

F or a brief time in the early 1900s, scientists believed that a horse could read German, recognize painters by their style, and do complex maths.

Farmers globally are experimenting with playing sounds, from classical music to insect-like tones, in their fields, hoping to ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still be the human eye. It is easy to tell at a glance whether or not it's ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, scientists could figure out which parts of the brain are activated when ...