Alyssa Radakovich, Frank Yang and colleagues identify around 200 potential quinones in burned plant material, advancing ...

Conference organizers secretly inserted hidden prompts into papers to catch peer reviewers using artificial intelligence ...

Scientists have finally solved a nearly 30-year-old mystery surrounding two unusual molecules found in rye pollen that once showed an intriguing ability to help animals fight tumors. By determining ...

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Recursive self-improvement AI now has a co-evolving evaluator: a Cambridge and NVIDIA preprint introduces the Red Queen Gödel ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

A University of Washington team is helping scientists tell their own stories with a free tool that converts dense, ...

Publication of a trove of confidential Supreme Court memos ignited debates in the legal academy. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket. Hello! Over the ...

College professors, in general, skew to the political left. But does their research? That’s the question animating a recent paper, “The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960 ...

Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built ...

It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: “Leading Scientists Challenge Foundation of Climate Change Assessments, Revealing Fatal Flaws in Ocean Heat Content (OHC ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...