The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine will send a series of human health research experiments aboard the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, the first ...

Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

More than 3,700 students across North America competed to design experiments for launch aboard the International Space ...

A NIMS research team has developed a new experimental method capable of rapidly evaluating numerous material compositions by ...

When the massive upgrade at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is completed later this year, experiments at the powerful X-ray light ...

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

The advent of web-based platforms for behavioural experimentation has revolutionised the way researchers approach data collection, enabling large-scale, cost-effective studies with diverse populations ...

San Marino High School’s Jasmine Kuo and Kara Lukas take notes from their Fibroblast Division in Microgravity experiment. Credit: NCESSE. Dreaming big may not literally make the world go round, but it ...

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The project, called the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, plans to ...

The National Academies of Sciences finds most of the research using dogs at the Department of Veteran s Affairs to be unnecessary. 8News first exposed the deadly dog experiments happening at McGuire ...

A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...