Put the pieces together and you can see a plausible near-future where human scientists focus more on choosing good questions ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the CIA’s MKUltra program and the recent ...

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.

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An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Kids won’t need beakers and microscopes for these biology experiments—they just need themselves! Each of these five experiments lets children discover how a human body system works. And by doing these ...