Neanderthals may have practiced a surprisingly advanced form of dental care tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known. A drilled molar from Siberia suggests they could recognize painful ...

By mapping how genes relate to one another across biological situations, GSFM creates a reference framework that can help ...

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...

A research team at Google co-led by Michael Brenner, Catalyst Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Harvard ...

Two artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can assist throughout multiple processes involved in scientific research—such ...

Today, only a few hundred people have received any form of implanted neural interface, which is a tiny fraction of those ...

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years of animal rights advocacy and the work of a conservative activist. By ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

On a cold day in February, an Augustinian friar described his experiments breeding garden-variety plants — and gave rise to the field of modern genetics. Gregor Mendel was an Austrian priest who had ...

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A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...