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 ...

Last week, I dissected a frog in the Capitol. Moments after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke about the importance of technology in our classrooms, addressing attendees of an Education ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- 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 ...