The DEA has begun an administrative hearing to place marijuana in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, which would ...

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

A new study developed a snore-source classification model that uses STFT spectrograms, pretrained CNN features, and an L2-regularized SVM to identify where snoring originates in the upper airway.

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF10224, and the National Science Foundation under Grant GBMF10224 to the National Academy of Sciences. Any ...

The Ancient Greeks were the first to delve into rational, scientific thought, transitioning from mythology to more evidence-based thinking about the world. Photo of Hippocrates teaching his students ...

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A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Artificial intelligence is approaching the point at which it can complete the scientific cycle, from hypothesis generation to experimental design and validation, within a closed loop that requires ...