A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

Working ahead of schedule, Space Station and Space Shuttle crews during the past week have almost completed moving new Expedition Five science experiments and lab equipment into the Station and ...

It’s summer, but that doesn’t mean kids have to stop learning. Discovery Lab at the Gathering Place teaches kids science lessons through unique experiments. One is called a chemical traffic light ...

A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research is that rare book that changes how you see a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Since Aristotle, scientists have vivisected, poked, and prodded live ...

Penn's Virtual Reality lab is making a fresh push to provide more unified and professional VR services in the University. The Neurology Virtual Reality Laboratory, which recently became a core service ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute have created a better brain. It’s a human brain, but it’s very small and it’s used for research. KPBS Sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge tells us about organoids, and how ...

The safety tests that the government says will no longer use animals by the end of this year include the practice of giving ...

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research. They re-created 50 experiments, the type of preliminary research ...

Due to their genetic and physiological similarities to humans, lab rodents have become the cornerstone of animal research. Olena Kurashova/iStock More than 20 years ago, two Harvard University medical ...

Whatever salary the science teacher at your local public school makes per year, subtract US$450. That’s how much money the typical middle and high school science teacher spends out of pocket each year ...