AI supercharges discovery; Nye and Afeyan warn U.S. anti-science cuts threaten health, competitiveness, future today.

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool. A key facet of scientific methodology is reproducibility. Essentially, good science should be easily ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...