If you are anything like us, you won't need a university study to tell you that music was better 'back when we were younger'. It's the same nostalgic 'science' that we use to apply to our sporting ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

The Trump administration announced last week that it is dismantling the leading climate research center in the United States.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Northwestern University said the number of junk scientific publications is growing, and bad actors are profiting. "These people are ruining it for all of us," said Northwestern ...