Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a team of scientists developed a "Virtual Lab" of AI researchers, two molecules have been discovered as potential COVID-19 ...

China’s most infamous scientist is attempting a comeback. He Jiankui, who went to jail for three years after claiming he had created the world’s first genetically altered babies, says he remains ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to make the electronic lab notebook into an intelligent research partner.

On the windowsill of a science laboratory high above the clamor of the Harvard Medical School campus, tidy rows of sunflower, avocado, and lemon plants bask in the afternoon sun. Every day, scientists ...

Imagine you’re a molecular biologist wanting to launch a project seeking treatments for a newly emerging disease. You know you need the expertise of a virologist and an immunologist, plus a ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...

Ms. Petrova is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center.

What does a scientist look like? A bright-eyed intellectual donning a white lab coat and goggles? Often, yes. But these days, they could look like a stack of computer servers softly humming away in an ...