Former elementary school teacher Matt Shurtleff — known to many students as “Matt the Mad Scientist” — demonstrated how sound waves move using water and lasers.

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 ...

In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in a predictable way, explained by classical physics. One of the important aspects of classical physics is that nothing travels faster than ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

A few years ago, Caetano Reis e Sousa, an immunologist at The Francis Crick Institute, and his team were investigating how the immune system detects tissue damage. They were specifically exploring the ...

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 ...

RED HOOK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Experiments, robots and demonstrations filled the gym at Summit Academy Charter School in Red Hook, where students became teachers and scientists during a new day-long ...

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New supercomputer simulations reveal Enceladus loses 20-40% less material through its plumes than previously estimated, suggesting its subsurface ocean is more stable. This revised understanding, ...

Students in Riverside and San Bernardino counties have their projects judged as they vie to move on to the next level of ...