If you are glued to the Olympic coverage as I am, you are seeing the commercial from Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly's advertisement uses the scientific method as a narrative frame, drawing a par ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

Getting to the truth wherever it leads is the sign of a well-functioning democracy; assaulting truth — lying or gaslighting — ...

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery. An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Autonomous laboratories and AI-driven experimentation are increasingly transforming how scientific discovery is conducted in chemistry, materials science, ...

We can learn from animals without trapping and capturing them ...