Anand’s lab-grown brain is the size of a pencil eraser and contains 99 percent of the genes found in a complete human brain.

Decades after the Virginia crime lab found DNA evidence that exonerated more than a dozen people, a new review of records shows a former employee altered evidence to help prosecutors.

Chinese scientist He Jiankui was jailed after gene-editing human embryos to make babies immune to HIV. Now he’s out and — he claims — back on the tools.

Alina Chan, who warned against dismissing the COVID "lab leak" theory, proposes an NTSB-like agency to oversee risky research.

An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks.

A research paper claiming to prove that the coronavirus was cooked up in a laboratory has been widely dismissed by mainstream scientists. The paper, which was posted online earlier this week and ...

Lila has taken a science-focused approach to training its generative A.I., feeding it research papers, documented experiments and data from its fast-growing life science and materials science lab.

The work of a national lab for the Mississippi River basin will need work at the confluence of basic and applied science.

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.

A Wuhan lab that was moved by Chinese officials in December 2019 — drawing scrutiny from a World Health Organization scientist — operated under a mild safety level protocol where workers didn ...

What is it that really makes us laugh? To find out, New Scientist visited Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum. Showcasing a wide selection of cartoonists ...

Tests, originally performed on mice, found that changes in blood vessels in the eyes could predict cognitive declines such as ...