The appeal of these diverse careers often lies in the different types of impact they enable. A PhD can teach more than ...

She reacted to an imagined version of the article, not the research in front of her," Josh Olds says of Samantha Fulnecky.

Donald Trump's new "Genesis Mission" initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a ...

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

If the claim is really false but the researcher decides, based on the evidence, it’s true – a false positive – they commit what’s called a Type 1 error. If the claim is really true but the researcher ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...