With major NIH cuts under Trump, here are initiatives in states like New York, California and Massachusetts to get state ...

Rejecting devastating cuts to science funding proposed by the Trump administration, a congressional panel released three ...

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 ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

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 ...

This year, new research in food science and health uncovered surprising benefits in everyday ingredients — and took a hard ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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.” ...