Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone’s potential to blow ...

Scientists could win back trust lost during the COVID-19 pandemic if they just showed a little intellectual humility, according to a study published Monday in Nature Human Behavior. It’s no secret ...

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...

Space engineers work on the NASA IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2025. Editor at Large If ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Societal challenges, from climate change to public health crises to advancements in AI, have been intrinsically linked with scientific progress for generations. But as politics become more polarized, ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A new study published in Theory and Society suggests that published research in the social sciences has leaned consistently ...