Even when information is factually accurate, how it’s presented can introduce subtle biases. As large language models…
An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia…
Wolves and coyotes feed on similar things – but their diets aren’t identical. A researcher studied predator diets to…
There are several methods for detecting whether a piece of text was written by AI. They all have limitations – and probably…
The $4 billion school security industry can’t back up claims for its tech. The silver lining: That’s partly because…
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies…
The Trump administration is rewriting the 80-year-old American social contract for science research.
The delusions of people with thought disorders have had consistent themes of persecution for decades. But new technology…
It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their…
The closer to Earth a satellite flies, the clearer a picture it can take of the surface. But low-flying satellites also…
Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.
Science has always been part of a marketplace of ideas, where claims vie for audiences, resources and belief, and where…
In the absence of comprehensive federal AI regulation, states have stepped in. The Trump administration, at Big Tech’s…
A new machine learning model explores the boundary between biological and nonbiological chemistry.
Interbreeding across species lines is one way helpful genes can spread into a bird population.
Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t…
Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group…
The mass adoption of new technologies drives demand for rare and complex materials used in their manufacture.
Some children recover better after traumatic brain injury than others, despite appearing similarly to doctors. Looking at…
What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question…