Superhero shows rarely damage children’s trust in scientists. Even villainous scientists don’t make kids doubt real science.

Young children have a lot of trust in scientists, and watching superhero TV shows with villainous researchers has little ...

"Trust in science is collapsing"—that's the alarm we often hear. It's not surprising, then, that recent years have seen major efforts to study the phenomenon and its dynamics in the general population ...

From ChatGPT crafting emails, to AI systems recommending TV shows and even helping diagnose disease, the presence of machine intelligence in everyday life is no longer science fiction.

Researchers and science journalists need to be transparent about nuance and context in the scientific process The US public’s ...

How much do undergraduate computer science students trust chatbots powered by large language models like GitHub Copilot and ...

Francis Collins has overseen some of the most revolutionary science of the last few decades. He led the Human Genome Project that sequenced the entire human genome by 2003, and then in 2009, he became ...

Editor: Our state recently saw a measles outbreak this past April, which is something that should not be happening in the year 2025. This is largely the result of growing vaccine hesitancy, driven by ...

As a public health professional, I am alarmed by growing efforts to undermine trust in science and evidence-based health policy— particularly fueled by public figures such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His ...

Despite science shaping nearly every aspect of our lives, from the air we breathe to the phones in our pockets, many people still see it as distant, abstract, and disconnected from their everyday ...

In an era where personal truth is often valued above facts, it has been claimed that science is in crisis. I was recently interviewed about this by freelance journalist Cathy Casseta. Can you explain ...

September hurricane showed how competition between government and private forecasts can damage accuracy and trust ...