AI has already proved itself a valuable scientific tool. Could it take on a more central role in the research process?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the science that we do today truth, likely to ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our ...

Scientists often come up with creative experiments to learn more about marine life and underwater ecosystems. From tracking how different species of sharks respond to different sounds to studying how ...

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

Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley are being celebrated like celebrities for advancing mathematics and developing ...

Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary School held its first-ever Science and Engineering fair, part of a campus celebration of STREAM Week, March 9-13. The Encinitas Union School District school’s ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...