The exponential growth in scientific knowledge, and the myriad technological innovations it has spawned over the past two centuries, has given rise to the expectation that scientific progress will ...

An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.

On the third floor of the John “Doc” DeVries Hall of Science, chemistry professor Kumar Sinniah showed the five high school students around him how to dilute a solution. “Don’t use this,” he cautioned ...

We at the Greater Good Science Center recently learned that one of our books was pulled from the shelves of the United States Naval Academy Nimitz Library, as part of a larger systematic purge of 381 ...

Using art as an entry point can help make the science of human embryology more accessible. “Art is a magnet for engagement and curiosity,” Barresi says. “Art invites people in and puts them in a more ...

As diplomats and activists scramble to secure hotel rooms in Belém, Brazil for the next U.N. COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the biggest problems our planet faces is how to protect the world's ...

I study how animal species change over time, especially through partnerships with other living things (called symbiosis). Most of my work focuses on sea creatures like clams, snails, and cockles, but ...