The changes announced by a major UK science funder are putting scientists — and the future of research — in a difficult position.

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President ...

Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.

China’s science ministry will crack down on universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers who are involved in ...

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited ...

Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called RentAHuman.ai to advertise their skills.

Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...

Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, ...

The study of the gut microbiome of infants in nurseries revealed that peer-to-peer interaction during the first years of life ...