Scientists' worst fears about Trump's cuts to research funding haven't come to pass, thanks to several legal challenges and ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

This post examines the evolution of robotic laboratories and outlines the key breakthroughs required to advance toward genuinely embodied scientific intelligence. The earliest defining milestone of ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...

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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 ...