AI supercharges discovery; Nye and Afeyan warn U.S. anti-science cuts threaten health, competitiveness, future today.

In a new letter, Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, warns that these actions risk undermining the foundations of science itself to the ultimate detriment of ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Researchers have examined 1.2 million criminal incidents and developed an innovative method to identify patterns in criminal trajectories. Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub have examined 1.2 ...

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 ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...