Some high school students in Canada and the U.S. are opting out of the ritual of dissecting frogs and fetal pigs in favour of computer simulations. A handful of U.S. states have approved opt-out ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Science Interactive Group (SIG) and BioDigital, Inc., two companies at the forefront of the education technology industry, have partnered to provide students and ...

The art and science of the scalpel is learned through long hours of study and hands-on dissection. Starting with the lowly frog, students learn the basics of anatomy by practising on the real thing.

The Animals in Science Policy Institute was founded by animal scientists and welfare advocates based in B.C. last July to provide education on the use of non-animal models in teaching, testing and ...

U.S. schools offering Canadian digital dissection program to squeamish biology students It’s not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a ...

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 at Windsor's Catholic schools are using virtual technology in the classroom to replace a traditional biology class project. Faux frogs, virtual renderings of hearts, lungs and ribs ... it's ...

V-Frog, now available in institutional and home editions, is presented as a way for students to dissect a virtual frog in a way that affords all the understanding that would be gained from taking ...

A brilliantly-executed gallery of online optical illusions, with explanations of the tricks of perspective and colour involved. Click on the left-hand circles for biological, aural and physical ...