Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched their book club, Library Science, in 2024. See all of their 2026 selections, so far.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

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

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover truth, and truth speaks for itself. But history tells a ...

Opinion thrives on confidence. Evidence thrives on proof. This list brings together science-backed books that dismantle popular beliefs, challenge lazy thinking, and replace certainty with research.