Scientists' worst fears about Trump's cuts to research funding haven't come to pass, thanks to several legal challenges and ...

Even as department leaders work to fast-track new tech, the administration is slashing funding that supports and secures ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...

T he 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 long argued that science ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a breakthrough, it rarely counts as one. Science loves a clean story. A single mind ...