Explore 10 scientific discoveries scientists wish they never made, highlighting unsettling findings, ethical dilemmas, and ...

Science rarely announces itself with fanfare. Most of the discoveries that have reshaped medicine, technology, and our understanding of the universe began as something modest: a strange result, an ...

Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers ...

Journalists bring scientific findings to the public, and to policymakers, who often rely on media reports rather than primary literature to provide context for policymaking. However, media reports can ...

Ahead of an artificial intelligence conference held last April, peer reviewers considered papers written by “Carl” alongside other submissions. What the reviewers did not know was that, unlike other ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Each year, Americans invest hundreds of billions of dollars in scientific research. We do so because new knowledge helps cure disease, improve health, strengthen the economy, and address challeng ...

The United Nations’ new Scientific Panel on AI could give governments a shared evidentiary basis for policymaking—but only if it can balance independence, expertise, and political legitimacy.

There is no history of executive orders being used to overturn scientific findings that are widely (indeed, globally) ...

A new report from PLOS, “Redefining Publishing: Practical pathways to open science”, sets out a practical roadmap for how scholarly publishing can evolve beyond article-centered and APC-driven models ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science 'has become ...