Edward Ricketts built his laboratory just onshore from the swirling tidepools of Monterey Bay, California, an ideal backdrop against which he developed a new system for studying the ecology of any ...

The control group gets the placebo—a pill that has no effect. The treatment group will receive the new pill. The scientist can then compare the outcomes for each group. A field experiment works ...

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google each announced new prototypes of quantum computing chips, but scientists say that the field is ...

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Zhu Min, a professor of paleontology at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, was elected as a foreign member in the field of biosciences.

[Photo provided to China Daily] A Chinese scientist was inducted as a foreign member in the field of biosciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. According to the official ...