Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate scientific discovery and open new frontiers of inquiry. But new research from ...

After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the ...

Cancer survival rates climbed significantly in recent decades. But federal funding cuts could threaten that progress, ...

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 ...

Researchers who focus on one specialty are more likely to rise through the academic ranks, even though wicked societal ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

“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.” ...

This year, new research in food science and health uncovered surprising benefits in everyday ingredients — and took a hard look at processed foods and pesticides. From buzzy breakthroughs to big ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...