When almost anyone can fabricate an image in seconds from a text prompt using artificial intelligence, how do people decide what image is real?

Scientific norms are guidelines for how scientists are expected to behave. A researcher who violates one of these norms won't be carted off to jail or fined an exorbitant fee. But when a norm is not ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study. By combining large-scale data analysis of ...

In January, Chinese artificial-intelligence start-up DeepSeek blew up the dam. The company released a chatbot that rivals industry leaders such as OpenAI’s Chat-GPT o1 and Anthropic’s Claude, and its ...

Different analytical methods have a significant impact on the results of scientific studies. This is demonstrated by a study conducted by an international research team. In the study, more than 300 ...

At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most profoundly unscientific ideas of our time, hosted leaders ...

Scientific thinking is not limited to laboratories or researchers in white coats peering into microscopes. It is a way of reasoning that empowers everyday citizens to make informed, data-driven ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

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Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found batteries with an “extremely high failure rate.” Credit...Illustration by Mel ...