How do jurors use different kinds of information about mental illness when making sentencing decisions? An experiment finds…
Social media activity suggests that pro-vaccine evidence may be starting to outweigh anti-vaxxer disinformation.
Two prestigious journals have suggested abandoning the traditional test of the strength of a study's results. But a…
As antibiotic resistance increases globally, the heat is on to find new alternatives to treat infections. Chemists can get…
A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed…
As commercial spaceflight companies lower the cost of reaching space, nations can launch more missions. But while astronauts…
An Estonian cybersecurity leader explains how her country defends itself, its society and its elections from Russian interference.
The high stress conditions of an outbreak can spread a dysfunctional culture among those working to fight it. A survey after…
After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the…
Media reports are starting to directly connect climate change to its weather effects in local communities. But how you respond…
As Netflix plans additional choose-your-own-adventure TV movies, a game designer explains how they're made and the long…
Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. Today, almost…
Objects left on the Moon are not just abandoned rockets and rovers. There is a lot of historic and sentimental memorabilia.…
Social media companies struggle to identify and remove hate speech when it's posted. What can computer science reveal…
Pilots get lots of assistance from automation as it is. In the future, they'll get even more.
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis;…
With Gottlieb's departure from the FDA imminent, what should we expect from the FDA? How is it likely to regulate the…
Children can't handle watching livestreamed massacres – and adults shouldn't have to.
Scientists and ethicists have called for a five-year moratorium on editing human genes that will pass on to future generations.…
The Great Red Spot has remained an essentially constant feature of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere for at least the past…