Wright State University students combined creativity and science during the Paint Your Petri Plates event hosted by the ...

Most college biology labs focus on microscopes and Petri dishes, but this semester, students at Texas Wesleyan University are ...

Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-size versions of the cavemen's brains. Why ...

Will the computers of tomorrow be manufactured, or will they be cultivated? This question lies at the heart of new research from Lehigh University that aims to engineer a neural network—a computer ...

All week, All Things Considered is offering Highly Specific Superlatives in honor of the year that was. On Tuesday, we look at the weirdest leap forward in brain science. Researchers can now grow mini ...

In the project, teams from the University of Jena are also looking for suitable bacteria - in the picture: Petri dish with the bacterium Streptomyces lividans - that fix heavy metals dissolved in the ...

What is data science? That is what people across a huge range of professions outside technology are asking. They are seeking ways to use data to be more productive in their jobs. Likewise, students of ...

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All this week we are talking to our friends here at NPR about their favorite things from 2017. And we're nerding out here. These are not, like, simple best-of lists. Today, science correspondent Jon ...