Cal State L.A. biology students are breeding fruit flies to learn how mutations, such as white eyes or curved wings, are passed to future generations. On other campuses, subjects on treadmills are ...

When Case Western Reserve University launches a new health education campus with the Cleveland Clinic next year, one feature will be conspicuously absent. There will be no place for cadavers. The ...

Many schools don’t have robust in-person laboratory facilities, instead relying primarily on dry textbooks to teach difficult STEM topics. But even schools with quality labs can benefit from these ...

Arizona State University will use Google's VR technology to offer the first completely online biology degree. While many schools offer online courses and degrees, some fields have remained ...

School supplies for some students in online biology classes at Arizona State University now include virtual reality goggles, a move toward further online science-lab instruction that many academics ...

Dreamscape Learn uses VR technology to fully immerse students in an Alien Zoo, where they can dissect fictional animals to reinforce foundational life science concepts they learn in an introductory ...

explosion and the shattering glass don’t distress her. She simply clicks her computer mouse a few times and starts over. Ms. Ellison’s laboratory section relies on computer simulations, rather than on ...