The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

AI cannot replace human participants in behavioral research

The “synthetic validity” problem in AI-generated science

Many universities and businesses now use language guides to eliminate supposedly harmful words like "master bedroom." However, a new study finds these bans may be misguided, as exposure to such terms ...

“The academic record is being quietly haunted” by researchers with names like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen.

Abstract. Algorithmically curated information environments are beginning to challenge both long-standing notions of what media effects look like and our ab

Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff...

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

Advances in gene editing technologies for human, plant, and animal applications have led to calls from bench and social scientists, as well as a wi...

Seit mehr als 25 Jahren forscht Dietram A. Scheufele von der University of Wisconsin–Madison im Bereich Wissenschaftskommunikation. Im Interview reflektiert er über fundamentale Veränderungen, plädier...

A study of 110,303 manuscript submissions to two elite research journals has identified factors during the editorial and peer review stages that impact whether a paper is accepted for publication. htt...

The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.

Trust in elite institutions is on the wane globally. Building public participation into research and government advice can turn the tide.

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

A landscape review of conceptual and empirical evidence on public trust in science and the qualities associated with trustworthy scientific practice.

Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as the...

The search giant showcased a range of AI initiatives.

Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

Megalomania, a hallmark of Hitler's Nazi regime, is on view nowhere more spectacularly than in Hitler's plans for enormous architectural shrines to himself.

Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the PC's earliest days.

Das woke Publikum zerstört gerade das Theater. Während sich die alten Männer noch beleidigen ließen, stürmen woke Zuschauer bei provokanten Inszenierungen d ...

Union Berlin sacked Steffen Baumgart after Saturdays 3-1 defeat to bottom side Heidenheim; Eta takes interim charge for final five games of the season with club still not certain of Bundesliga surviva...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness.

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

Transformative Science and Technology for Defense | Digital Proceedings of a Workshop Series—in Brief | July–September 2025

“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box said.

Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for pow...

While confidence in science is high compared to other institutions, many Americans question whether scientists share their values, including religious ones. Narratives surrounding science and religion...