Mona Minkara is in her office with multicolored molecular-model supplies on her desk. Her eyes peek out through holes in a red-and-white model she is inspecting with her hands. The model is about the ...

Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

Folco Panizza is assistant professor of prosocial behaviour and decision making at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the ...

Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can researchers use them responsibly? Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

AI – or artificial intelligence – is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

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During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science. Specifically, I learned that elementary school students are predisposed to ...