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?

The nature writer Robert Macfarlane probes some profound moral and environmental questions in “Is a River Alive?" ...

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

Although the evidence is limited, some psychologists are increasingly using ketogenic diets to treat psychiatric disorders.

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

Zweig’s book, along with Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson’s recent “The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism,’’ are impassioned accounts contending that in recent years, ...

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

I n 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

CRISPR provides one example of how biotechnology comes about through efforts to understand biodiversity. The research also illustrates how computation has become fundamental to biology: Algorithms and ...

P ublic trust in science has been in the spotlight in recent years: After the U.S. presidential election in November, one Wall Street Journal headline declared that “Science Lost America’s Trust.” ...