Millions have been spent to catch plagiarism and AI with tools from education company Turnitin. Is the tech worth it?

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

A foundational tale of the discipline of public health is a story about the triumph of sharp observation. During an 1854 cholera outbreak in London, the physician John Snow mapped the location of ...

T he exploration of environmental DNA started in the 1980s with researchers studying microbes or microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the use of ...

P atricia Tricorache, an independent wildlife trade investigator based in Mexico City, spends hours each day lit by the glow of her computer screen, trawling social media sites for people buying and ...

G rowing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a comet ...

I n 1980, California laid the groundwork for one of the world’s first large-scale wind projects when it designated more than 30,000 acres east of San Francisco for wind development, on a stretch of ...

W hile concerns over how to balance agriculture and water availability in the Southwest are nothing new, virtual water is a relatively recent concept. First introduced by British geographer John ...