Francis Bacon was inspired by the inventors of his day ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

From immune system shifts to organ-on-a-chip experiments, Artemis 2 is as much a human health mission as it is a test flight around the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data available to users of PlantNet – a “Shazam!” for plants. Pierre Bonnet and ...

A new chapter on climate science was recently added to—and swiftly removed from—a reference manual designed to give judges an unbiased source of scientific information. Credit: Davis Staedtler/Flickr, ...

It’s time to end the tossing and turning. A sleep expert says he has the key to a better night’s sleep, part of it being finding the right position to stay comfortable all night long. Dr. John Saito, ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has named 13 people to his panel of science advisers — and all but one is a leading technology executive. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ...

The biggest factor holding back an American revolution in science is not money but talent identification. For more than half a century, risk-averse bureaucracies and universities have let bold ideas ...

Astronomers caught a comet in the act of reversing its spin. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists noticed the never-before-seen behavior of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák (41P to its ...

If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement. Neither will there necessarily be a dramatic Promethean ...