A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

Staffers were suspended or fired for signing an open letter excoriating the Trump administration for its treatment of EPA science and workers.

How do we turn the science of aging into trustworthy, deployable systems that improve human lives at meaningful scale?

Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic ...

Urbanite Theatre's “The Apiary” unfolds in the not-too-distant future. What's an apiary? It's an area for beekeeping. This one's a black comedy — and incandescent science-fiction. Kate Douglas' play ...

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy ...

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm?

The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, ...

The Academy of Social Sciences has elected five experts from The University of Manchester as Fellows in recognition of their ...

DELAYS in the Senate Ethics Committee’s handling of the complaint against Senator Ronald M. dela Rosa risk setting a damaging precedent, which could undermine accountability and signals tolerance for ...

Thanks to taxpayer funding, scientific research has become utterly and hopelessly politicized. It’s time to pull the plug on ...

A host of agency appointees will be free to reconnect with past industry clients on upcoming consequential regulatory matters.