Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical testing on animals.

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live fire training exercises and prohibits ...

New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers ...

Different AI models win at images, coding, and research. App integrations often add costly AI subscription layers. Obsessing over model version matters less than workflow. The pace of change in the ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

This episode follows a tense moment during delivery when a puppy became stuck in the birth canal. The mother dog struggled, and every passing second mattered. The veterinary team acted quickly, using ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, China. Studies of reservoirs often assume that they act in the same way as natural lakes. However, they are different in several ways, from their ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...