The fate of the centers isn't sealed, since Congress ultimately has the power to assign funds. But until a decision is made, ...

Basic scientific research is a key contributor to economic productivity. Is science running out of steam? A growing body of research suggests that disruptive breakthroughs—the kind that fundamentally ...

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

The parabolic flight travels up and down several times on a trajectory resembling an arch, providing 22 seconds of zero ...

A study has found that the AI models behind widely used platforms like ChatGPT produce more original research ideas than human experts. In the Standford University study, titled "Can LLMs Generate ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

Robert Maxwell founded a scientific publishing empire after World War II that turned research papers into a profitable business.

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

This week, the stories in The Lede are devoted to the lives that have been upended during the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second term. In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse ...

An organised underground network of individuals and groups is enabling fraudulent research and increasingly undermining the integrity of science, an alarming new study warns. Researchers from ...

Adopting a targeted, multi-pass reading approach to research studies can help you efficiently locate and extract the information you’re looking for while identifying potential limitations. Reading a ...

“Can you imagine eating toxic waste for breakfast?” Science magazine asked in a 2010 press release touting a newly discovered microbe controversially claimed to “live and grow entirely off arsenic.” ...