A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are under-represented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organisations. This is true for science academies ...

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Results from a massive research project investigating whether previously reported scientific ...

To relieve physicians of burdensome record keeping, many health care systems have in recent years introduced artificial intelligence scribes, technology that “listens” to conversations between doctors ...

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 ...

Caffeine fiends, rejoice: New research from Mass General Brigham suggests drinking coffee and tea in moderation may lower the risk of dementia. The researchers analyzed data from 131,821 people who ...

Around 50% of a person's lifespan is determined by genetics, a new study suggests, more than doubling previous estimates of the heritability of longevity. The new research, published Jan. 29 in the ...

People often complain—and rightly so—that the typical exercise science study involves a half-dozen male undergraduates who follow some sort of workout routine for a couple of weeks. So you can imagine ...

If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that AI is reshaping technology with a speed and scale unlike any previous technological revolution. In a live taping on ...

The prevalence of obesity in the United States could rise sharply under a new definition of obesity released earlier this year by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission. Researchers from ...