Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ...

The appeal of these diverse careers often lies in the different types of impact they enable. A PhD can teach more than technical skills—it has also developed an ability to evaluate evidence, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The agency may need to ditch its scientific justification for repealing the endangerment finding that underpins most climate rules. Science played only a bit part in EPA’s July proposal to scrap the ...

A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases. The NOAA Center for ...

In the US, more than 90% of corn plants are genetically modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals like glyphosate, to make their own insecticides, or both. For soybeans, over 94% are genetically ...

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New York City office. I walk past it multiple times a day, and one line of text ...

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When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

Researchers at Northwestern University said the number of junk scientific publications is growing, and bad actors are profiting. "These people are ruining it for all of us," said Northwestern ...