Critics of two reports by the academies have cited potential disclosure problems among study panelists. Now, an official says, the idea of a policy review "has just gained more and more traction."

Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.

How might machine learning shape the way we move through and interact with the immediate environment around us?

The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.

We all love science when it’s making life better, longer and easier. It’s a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

Thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university.

Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.

Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.

When does a preprint become a publication?

The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.