A scientist in Arkansas couldn’t get her experiments to work. Then others started saying the same thing.

A lot of research is slogging through experiments that don’t always work, wading through research publications, and performing mental contortions in pursuit of the next hypothesis.

The job, in these experiments, was getting a cashew out of a puzzle box. By Darren Incorvaia Cockatoos contain contradictions. “They behave like gremlins,” said Antonio Osuna-Mascaró, a ...

Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet A collection of new studies on gene activity shows that AI tools aren't very good.

This patch from the NASA Fundamental Biology Program belonged to NASA astronaut David Brown, a mission specialist who flew in space for the first time as a member of the crew of STS-107, the Space ...