When almost anyone can fabricate an image in seconds from a text prompt using artificial intelligence, how do people decide ...

The idea of a “unitary executive” is now being extended to America’s scientific establishment, with potentially devastating ...

Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted ...

It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold ...

A scientific theory is a structured explanation to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world that often incorporates a scientific hypothesis and scientific laws. The scientific ...

Each year, Americans invest hundreds of billions of dollars in scientific research. We do so because new knowledge helps cure disease, improve health, strengthen the economy, and address challeng ...

The specific questions posed about reproducibility and replicability in the committee’s statement of task are part of the broader question of how scientific knowledge is gained, questioned, and ...

Science is essential to innovation and economic prosperity. Although studies have shown that national scientific development is affected by geographic, historic and economic factors, it remains ...

Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person’s skull could reveal their mental strengths or weaknesses. And in the 20th ...

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Henry Kauffman lamented, “Why are we so poor at managing our key economic institutions while at the same time so accomplished in medicine, engineering and ...

A new kind of institutional vandalism appeared last month in the form of a 412-page Trump administration regulatory proposal ...