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

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

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

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

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

Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched their book club, Library Science, in 2024. See all of their 2026 selections, so far.

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

These are missions only NASA can lead. Everything else should go to partners who can deliver faster and cheaper.

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her joy. While some people would rather avoid snowflakes and the slippery roads ...

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 ...