Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Although it’s too soon to use the new results in the clinic, the test provides advantages over previously reported ‘clocks’ — ...

Virtual chatbots that simulate conversations with famous actors or sci-fi characters can have real-world consequences.

Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

Hours later, Andrew Nixon, the top spokesperson for the NIH’s parent agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to ...

The results of technology research and development must find their way into the published literature. New models of regulation could help.

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

Conventionally, the doctorate was a stepping stone to a lifelong career in academia. But today, the number of PhD graduates ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...