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

Biology class just got a lot more engaging for students at Arizona State University Polytechnic, where students are using virtual reality to explore it through immersive lessons that apply real-world ...

For Daniel Halloran, a former graduate teaching assistant (TA) for the University of Delaware’s Integrated Biology and Chemistry (iBC) course series, the connection between the two areas of studies is ...

Pull on your headset, attach hand motion trackers, choose your avatar. You’re now ready for biology lab at one of Arizona State University’s new virtual reality pods. Biology students are among the ...

The learning goals articulated below provide our students a framework for contextualizing and learning the fundamental knowledge needed to complete the biology major and to become prepared for future ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to recognize biology may no longer be enough.

John Hawks recounts a recent conversation about bioinformatics: I was talking with a scientist last week who is in charge of a massive dataset. He told me he had heard complaints from many of his ...

The 14 Bates students poured out of vans, stretched briefly, and got to work handing out plastic buckets, clipboards, work gloves, PVC pipe, and other odds and ends. They had trekked from Lewiston to ...

Kristin Chavis teaches 9th-grade students in Louisiana. — -- A Louisiana high school teacher is rapping and rhyming to help her 9th-grade students learn biology. Kristin Chavis, a science teacher ...