Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Recently, a trio of mainstream physicists accused hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other mainstream physicists of Not Doing Science.

Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.

The ability to participate in science has always been political. On International Women’s Day, scientists must decide how best to defend women’s rights

Research on collective recall takes on new importance in a post-fact world.

“”Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein

Moonshots, road maps, frameworks and more are proliferating, but few can agree on what these names even mean.

Two men came to Zurich. Their mission: to persuade Albert Einstein to join them in Berlin...

To claim credit for a discovery, we publish it in a peer-reviewed journal; to get a job in academia or money to run a lab, we present piles of these published papers to universities and funding agencies. Publishing is so embedded in the practice of science that whoever controls the journals controls access to the entire profession. It is, therefore, worth examining to whom we have entrusted the keys to the kingdom of science.

Philosophers could help policy makers to ask the right questions. But to give this practical help, academic philosophy must take lessons from open science.

Science’s reach has relentlessly expanded to include ever more facets of our world, but the world’s most important scientific honor society has largely ignored that evolution.

A time traveler from 1915 arriving in 1965 would have been astonished by the scientific theories and engineering technologies invented during that half century. One can only speculate, but it seems likely that few of the major advances that emerged during those 50 years were even remotely foreseeable in 1915.

Barbara A. Spellman on the role of technological and demographic changes

Openly discussing the history of science, where is has gone wrong, and the incredible efforts individual scientists go to uncover fraud should inspire confidence in its self-correcting nature.