A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high-demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based startup Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data centres ...

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. Nine Kensington Health Science Academy seniors are ...