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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 27—A green moray eel is the newest addition to the Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur, while new virtual-reality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog-dissection software designed for biology education—allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection—has been developed and is ...

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 ...

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.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – It's not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal. Think about the frog. The pig. Or even the ...