Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery. An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge ...

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 ...

The Trump administration spent 2025 taking a sledgehammer to science, obliterating funding and reshaping agencies like the FDA and the National Institutes of Health through layoffs and restrictive new ...

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Scientific thinking is not limited to laboratories or researchers in white coats peering into microscopes. It is a way of reasoning that empowers everyday citizens to make informed, data-driven ...

OpenAI on December 16 announced FrontierScience, a new benchmark designed to evaluate artificial intelligence systems on expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry and biology, as AI ...

Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in ...

The scientific method is a mathematical and experimental technique that is used in sciences to build a hypothesis and testing ...