The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but Alabama officials’ plan to use robots to improve care for rural pregnant women and their babies is real.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

In a quiet laboratory, a team of atmospheric scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory recently gathered around a workstation to watch as little ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

We've been trained to 'see something, say something' about danger. What if we did the same for what's good? It takes 10 seconds, and the research says the giver benefits most.

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

What does it take to be cool? A group of researchers last year claimed to have cracked the code, identifying six criteria for coolness. Cool people were generally seen as extrovert, hedonistic, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FOX 29 Meteorologist Drew Anderson leads a cool science experiment relating to what happens when the inches of snow on the ground ...