Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Dr Catherine Hill hopes the education ministry plans to revise the new curriculum to make it well organised and logical.

A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.

Archaeologists in Turkey say they have uncovered evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments, according to new research.

A new method trains artificial intelligence systems to more reliably solve complex problems that require interpreting both text and images. In tests, AI models trained with this method outperformed ...

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters ...

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated ...

The four faculty that assembled to explore artificial general intelligence represent multiple disciplines across UC San Diego, a public research university that prioritizes cross-collaboration.

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial ...

The growth and impact of artificial intelligence are limited by the power and energy that it takes to train machine learning models. So how are researchers working to improve computing efficiency to ...