Academia isn't strong on gender equality. Women are underrepresented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organizations. This is true for science academies ...

Scientists have long sought to find logical explanations for alleged hauntings. In 2003, for instance, University of ...

The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s ...

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Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

Professor Dashun Wang found that only a small share of scientific papers are cited by both Democrats and Republicans, but ...

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford ...

More bad news for the ocean current at the center of the fictional (and scientifically inaccurate) "Day After Tomorrow" ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

A new 20-week sleep study conducted with attendees of Dave Asprey's Beyond Biohacking Conference is challenging a core assumption in the performance world: that recovery is driven primarily by ...

U.S. traffic deaths have remained at about 40,000 a year since 2000, but pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities have risen 68%.

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...