Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in ...

Green hydrogen could be a game-changer for the clean energy transition—but right now, it’s too expensive and still relies on harmful “forever chemicals.” A new EU-backed project called SUPREME aims to ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

From space exploration to artificial intelligence, modern scientific breakthroughs depend on moving large amounts of data quickly. At Kennesaw State University, Associate Professor of Information ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever.

What Noubar Afeyan eloquently describes in his Jan. 29 op-ed, in defense of the scientific method, “Science at risk: Massachusetts must lead the fight for facts,” is what fascism looks like, plain and ...

Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. He is also cofounder and board chair of Moderna. Massachusetts has long been a hotbed for innovation. Rebellious ideas — channeled through the ...

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The ...

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