Researchers at Northwestern University said the number of junk scientific publications is growing, and bad actors are profiting. "These people are ruining it for all of us," said Northwestern ...

The DeSci movement continues to gain steam among industry insiders. The world of science has a problem with too much centralization and not enough incentivization, at least according to supporters of ...

When a crowd gets something right, like guessing how many beans are in a jar, forecasting an election, or solving a difficult scientific problem, it's tempting to credit the sharpest individual in the ...

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...

EARLIER THIS month, Robert F. Kennedy junior, America’s health secretary, removed the panel of 17 experts who decide the country’s vaccination guidelines. He later replaced them with eight of his own ...

A landmark has been reached in the field of physics and artificial intelligence with the successful resolution of a 50-year-old science problem. The neural network, developed by Alphabet subsidiary, ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...