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"I knew right from the minute we dropped in that it was something special," conservationist Sophie Kalkowski-Pope said.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute observed the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) swimming near the seafloor ...

Integrating AI with advanced robotics to create self-driving labs (SDL) is a promising approach to tackling molecular discovery.

Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure—a discovery enabling scientists to ...

Integrating AI with advanced robotics to create self-driving labs (SDL) is a promising approach to tackling molecular discovery. A new SDL ...

More than 1.5 miles below the surface, a forgotten 16th-century merchant ship has been found intact, its cargo still in place on the Mediterranean seabed.

The world's most critical challenges are accelerating at a rapid pace. The R&D methods tasked with solving them are not—until ...

Robots whirred, teams strategized and students and spectators alike learned valuable lessons in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) during a weekend at Brock University dedicated ...

Developed by young engineers in Kerala, Cocobot is a coconut-harvesting robot designed to climb 20-metre palm trees and cut ripe fruit safely from the ground.

The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology is visiting Pittsburgh to talk about how biotechnology and artificial intelligence will play a role in the city.