Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific journals, recently began testing a subscription-based search engine of article abstracts from more than 14,000 scientific journals. About 50 colleges are ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but ...

Scientists in developing countries may soon have better access to peer research on the Internet, thanks to a partnership between search specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer science and neuroscience, its ...

Google Scholar — the largest and most comprehensive scholarly search engine — turns 20 this week. Over its two decades, some researchers say, the tool has become one of the most important in science.

NextBio, a Cupertino, Calif. company that has built a search engine for life sciences, has raised $7 million in a second round of funding led by Newbury Ventures, and including other undisclosed ...

As snails go, the rosy wolfsnail (Euglandina rosea) is a perfect predator. An invasive species in Hawaii, French Polynesia and a number of other islands in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, the wolfsnail ...

The American Chemical Society says Google's new academic and scientific search engine, Google Scholar, is infringing on its established search product, Scifinder Scholar. The ACS filed a statement of ...