The Highlands County school district in Florida may soon be examining virtual specimens on a computer screen rather than real ones under a microscope. Rebecca Fleck, the assistant superintendent of ...

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better. “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter ...

Starting next fall, the 11,600-student Highlands County, Fla., school system could end frog and pig embryo dissection in classrooms, instead opting for virtual dissections over the computer. But some ...

Students in training to be nurses, paramedics and physical therapists will be able to dissect, analyze and study the human body on virtual cadavers with a device newly acquired by Carroll Community ...

Two companies have teamed up to provide students with options to perform real or virtual dissections. Carolina Biological Supply is working with VictoryVR on the project. The first company provides ...

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual ...

E.T. surely would have approved. In Steven Spielberg’s suburban homesick alien classic, the title character’s young friend Elliott flips out in class during frog dissection day, and frees all of the ...

Human anatomy class is a right of passage for medical school students, but the bodies they dissect tend to be an afterthought. Who can know the story behind this person on the lab table before them ...

DALLAS — Anatomage Virtual Dissection Table is a new educational tool now available to Misericordia University health and pre-med students. The six-foot-long computerized-table, similar to a operating ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

For New Orleans teacher Ann Smart, a longtime aversion to dissecting animals in her classroom reached a tipping point one afternoon when she was overcome by chemical fumes while attending a forensic ...

When it comes to hands-on learning, I can think of no classroom more compelling than a gross anatomy lab, where students of the human form dissect actual bodies from head-to-toe with their own hands.