Academic science is a tale of broken incentives. Scholars must choose whether to publish what advances their career or to ...

Vitamins in pregnancy are usually discussed in terms of a baby’s health at birth. But could the amount of vitamin D taken ...

In the 1850s, German scientists were trying to figure out how to weigh a forest – but they weren’t particularly interested in ...

(via Cool Worlds) The "Great Filter" is a pivotal idea in astrobiology. It may very well explain the Fermi Paradox. Today we ...

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OpenAI's newest chatbot may be a whiz at math, but it seems to be lagging far behind humans in its academic rigor. Last week the company announced 10 more artificial-intelligence-generated math ...

When the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine speak, Americans assume they are hearing from thousands of the country’s most accomplished researchers. That isn’t always true. The ...

A telescope in Chile has captured evidence of the impact caused by part of a SpaceX rocket slamming into the moon while travelling at 8,690km/h (5,400mph). The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) ...

Narcolepsy isn’t easy to treat. Existing drugs manage patients’ symptoms—notably excessive daytime sleepiness and difficulty sleeping at night—rather than the cause. Yet a new type of drug is emerging ...

Humans have big brains, and those brains come with a big appetite for energy. The focus on what fueled the evolution of our massive noggins has centered on protein from meat, but a new analytical ...

On a recent morning commute, I sat on a train in one of those awkward four-person configurations with a shared table. Across from me sat a typical commuter: early 30s, slacks, dress shirt, dirty white ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...