Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the cell, transmitting signals, speeding up reactions and helping neighboring ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know.

A new study reveals the subtle effects of survey interfaces on people's responses—and how those small differences can add up.

While many computer science professors told the News they strongly discouraged AI use, some suggested it can be a helpful learning tool.

An international team has confirmed that large quantum systems really do obey quantum mechanics. Using Bell’s test across 73 qubits, they proved the presence of genuine quantum correlations that can’t ...

"You still had to prove yourself." "Every cloud has a blue lining!" Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember a few minutes from now? If you guessed the second, you're probably correct.

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

Vempala is a co-author of Why Language Models Hallucinate, a research study from OpenAI released in September. He says that there is a direct correlation between an LLM's hallucination rate and its ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing.

When deadlines start piling up and your schedule feels impossible, it's easy to panic about how to finish that research paper, case study, or write your essay on time.

UL’s Prof Geraldine Mooney Simmie discusses her research into STEM education and the work of the Epi-STEM research centre.

The reasons range widely, experts say, from women facing the lingering, ages-old stereotype that boys are better at math and science, to them lacking role models both in their college faculties ...