Dark matter is an invisible substance that is said to bind the universe; scientists may have found new signs of it.

I’m my most recent column, I tackle animal research: Cells growing in a dish or experiments run on a computer only get one so far. Some of the trickiest outstanding questions in biology—the questions ...

The twentieth century brought incredible scientific breakthroughs. It also brought some of the strangest and darkest experiments ever whispered about. While most scientists worked with microscopes and ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

BATTLE lines are being drawn for a confrontation next week that will decide the future of an international neuroscience centre. Why the controversy? Because the centre, to be built in Britain on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kate Biberdorf, also known as Kate the Chemist, joins TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Tiffany Haddish to share fun ...

A 17-year acid rain experiment at Canada’s Lake 223 changed its water chemistry and disrupted its ecosystem. Although 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 In the summer of 1984, the Australian ...

It started with a poster on the classroom board of William Heinen, a biology teacher at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California, that called for all students to participate in a ...

Imagine spending months, perhaps even years, testing an idea. The experiment is carefully designed, samples are collected, ...