OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...

The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity ...

AI has become indispensable in science. It helps solve a variety of problems, from classifying galaxies and improving weather predictions, to recording rare events such as supernova explosions. Still, ...

For years, scientific sleuths have been uncovering flaws and fraud in research publishing, from duplicated images and fabricated data to fake peer reviews. Their work has helped to bring about the ...

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

A new report released yesterday by the Department of Energy purports to provide “a critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate change.” But nine scientists across several different ...

Peer review has met its match.

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...