Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

The question of whether men or women can handle physical discomfort better has fueled countless debates and social stereotypes for generations. Many people argue that women are inherently tougher ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing jobs and industries, causing no small amount of consternation as it does. But on the bright side, it has the potential to greatly aid economists by ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s ...

The Wando Mount Pleasant Library is excited to announce the third annual Wando Children’s Science Fair. This is a great ...

Every year, the fair draws in third- through 12th-grade students from across the valley, challenging them to explore an array ...

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is no longer the bottleneck—if generating, testing, and iterating on ...

Leonardo da Vinci becomes more of a scientist with age and performs experiments to test theories. Muslim scientists in the Middle East had been testing their theories with experiments for a long time.

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When I teach history of science at Stevens ...