When the British entomologist John Sudd emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950s to conduct research at University College, Ibadan, he found plenty to study in his own abode. Like most dwellings in the ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome. Last November, the UK government ...

Science has always demanded a certain fearlessness — a willingness to venture beyond the known and test the limits of what’s possible. But throughout history, that fearlessness has sometimes crossed ...

Modern computational tools let scientists explore huge numbers of possible molecules, materials and chemical reactions. But testing every combination in the lab is slow and costly. So how do ...

Scientists have used high-performance computing at large scales to analyze a quantum photonics experiment. In specific terms, this involved the tomographic reconstruction of experimental data from a ...

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