Every episode of season 5 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...

M ost of us have been taught to think of scientific bias as a distortion of scientific results. As long as we avoid misinformation, fake news, and false conclusions, the thinking goes, the science is ...

"Can machines think?" This epoch-making question was first raised by Alan Turing in 1950 in his groundbreaking paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." This opened up a new field of Artificial ...

On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and gas production, despite U.S. oil and gas production already ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Strong inference requires laying out competing alternatives. Source: From Pexels, uploaded by Pixabay Early in their scientific careers, many researchers have a short article written by John R. Platt ...

Nobel and Templeton Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos. Read previous columns here. Most of my scientific working hours are devoted to the business of answering ...

Randall Munroe's first book of scientific answers to the absurd questions people have was so popular that he wrote another one. In What If? 2, the author and cartoonist answers confusing and often ...

Plugging medical symptoms into Google is so common that clinicians have nicknamed the search engine “Doctor Google.” But a newcomer is quickly taking its place: “Doctor Chatbot.” People with medical ...

Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face, has cast doubt on the belief that current artificial intelligence systems will lead to major scientific breakthroughs. Wolf told ...