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Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

A breakthrough quantum physics experiment has revealed a startling result. Scientists measured “negative time” as photons ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialized knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must combine deep analysis with broad reasoning ...

Research conducted partly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggests that "microgravity" could help scientists fight drug-resistant superbugs, according to a report from SWNS. Microgravity ...

Then why are so many optimistic scientists now losing heart? Because the nation’s research enterprise is shrinking.

Most people trust scientists to test new ideas on animals or in controlled labs. But some researchers decided that the best test subjects were themselves. These scientists put their own bodies at risk ...

I’m my most recent column, I tackle animal research: Cells growing in a dish or experiments run on a computer only get one so far. Some of the trickiest outstanding questions in biology—the questions ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nara Parameswaran, Michigan State University (THE CONVERSATION) Fielding frantic ...