In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

A scientific journal has retracted a 2000 study frequently cited to defend the safety of the active ingredient in the ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

Andrew Anderson, VP of innovation and informatics strategy at ACD/Labs, talks about how the scientific method is being redefined and the role the AI-digital-physical DMTA cycle plays. LCGC ...

Communication must be viewed as more than the last step of the research process. It is the structure that makes scientific work clear, trusted and remembered. The first time I worked with patient DNA ...

OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence ...

When Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova was detained at Logan Airport in February and charged with bringing frog embryos into the country for research purposes without declaring them to customs, it ...

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 ...