Chimpanzee experiments suggest early humans were likely fascinated by crystals because of their unique transparency and ...

BACKGROUND: Aortic valve calcification increases leaflet stiffness and contributes to the development of calcific aortic valve disease. The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying calcification ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...

Mark Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his ...

Gabriel Gomes believes the future of chemistry is as much about flasks and fume hoods as it is about code. A chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, Gomes works at the intersection of ...

Officials at Brookhaven National Laboratory pushed the button on the final smash up in its $2 billion Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider in Upton Friday, marking a quarter century of ground-breaking ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...

Last month on national TV, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such ...

In tourist hotspots around the world, monkeys steal phones, extort snacks, and rule streets like tiny crime bosses. At first glance, they seem clever — but completely immoral. Science tells a more ...

Is President Donald Trump TACOing on threats to defund monkey research at the National Institutes of Health, which pays most of the bills at the Oregon National Primate Research Center? TACO is Wall ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving. A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” ...