AI supercharges discovery; Nye and Afeyan warn U.S. anti-science cuts threaten health, competitiveness, future today.

But there’s a catch. As individual scholars soar through the academic ranks, science as a whole shrinks its curiosity. AI-heavy research covers less topical ground, clusters around the same data-rich ...

Western Nevada College students took center stage last month as they presented original scientific research during a poster ...

Ever read some new scientific study and thought, “Can I trust this?” Well, you’re not alone. With all of the research floating around, it’s kind of tricky to know what’s legit and what’s not. Need a ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, leading scientists around the world believed that paranormal activity might be detected and demonstrated by scientific methods. The history of their attempts ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has found that citizen science initiatives could be one of the keys to unlocking ...

A new study lays out a scientific framework for holding individual fossil fuel companies liable for the costs of climate change by tracing specific damages back to their emissions. The researchers use ...