Much published science and the "knowledge" resulting from it is likely wrong and sends researchers chasing false leads. Without research integrity, we don’t know what we know, so it is incumbent on ...

At a congressional hearing Wednesday, witnesses defended the scientific publishing industry while blasting the Trump ...

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 $23 billion bond would protect jobs, sustain lifesaving research, improve health and bolster the state’s innovation economy.

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the ...

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Even in this starkly divided country, Americans can agree on one ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

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 ...

Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of ...

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin — or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been ...