JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the ...

Rock-and-roll puns aside, ELVIS is leaving the building — and Earth's surface — to collect data for “suspicious minds” who wonder if microbial life could exist in subsurface oceans of icy moons like ...

This article explores how autonomous science could speed up breakthroughs in medicine & materials, while raising urgent ...

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 ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

Autonomous laboratories integrate artificial intelligence with automated experimentation and advanced instrumentation to ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...