A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...

Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public distrust of ...

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s growing faster than legitimate peer reviewed ...

Dopamine is the brain's motivational spark, driving us to chase what feels good, say scrolling another reel on social media, and steer clear of what doesn't, like touching a hot stove. But scientists ...

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Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...

Factor doubles down on taking the guesswork out of eating well with expansive new chef-crafted meals, nutrition-focused offerings like high protein and GLP-1, and the appointment of Kylie Sakaida, MS, ...

Can something that exists be bad science? The multiverse pops out of quite a few theories in physics, and has been proposed as a solution to certain vexing problems. But it’s also been argued that the ...

Relax, but be on constant alert. Enjoy your baby, but take them very seriously. Follow your instincts, but do exactly what the scientists and health professionals say. Amid such a deluge of “expert” ...

The “ideologies and stereotypes” that define modern motherhood mainly serve to cast blame on mothers, writes Bollen, a U.K.-based postnatal practitioner, in this intriguing debut. Bollen posits that ...

Junk science admitted during trial continues to undermine our judicial system, unfairly affecting individual parties, consumers and industries. When judges allow flawed evidence to corrupt verdicts, ...