Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Bill Nye was in Orlando to tout The Planetary Society’s efforts to save NASA science after pressuring Congress to defy President Trump’s proposed budget.

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would allow societies to adapt to and mitigate environmental damage. That belief ...

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...

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Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...

T he 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 long argued that science ...