Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence.

Scientific research needs to slow down, not speed up, to produce trustworthy results.

The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system.

Recent news of complex embryo models revived debates over stem cells and human cloning. But biology says there’s nothing to worry about.

Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods.

Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop.

Mathematicians want to think their field is a meritocracy, but bias, harassment and exclusion persist.

They strengthen the institutions that ensure a strong democracy, leading to rational decisions

Three physicists envision ways in which the quest for knowledge can last forever.

It can’t supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer.