Research

Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.

The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into it?

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.

What does a Harvard Business School professor’s decision to sue the professors who raised questions about her research bode for academic autonomy?

People with post-viral illnesses often feel shut out of the scientific establishment. Two renowned Yale researchers are attempting to bring them in.

The Sam Altman saga at OpenAI underscores an unsettling truth: nobody knows what A.I. safety really means.

The model of aggression and dominance has infected human society. But new research shows how wrong we got it.

Even balloons launched for scientific reasons have always carried political ballast.

John Lott is the most influential pro-gun researcher in the country. But his methods and findings have been repeatedly debunked.

A.I. researchers are making progress on a long-term goal: giving their programs the kind of knowledge we take for granted.

Under Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press is one of the few academic publishers with crossover appeal.

The imperfect, scattershot search tool delivers just enough usefulness and serendipity to keep one hooked.

The human body generates its own heat. Some people can adjust the thermostat.

Could a “broad spectrum” booster increase our immunity to many pathogens simultaneously?

The marine mammals have been observed to stop vocalizing, hunting, and feeding after hearing underwater blasts.

Using just her eyes and memory, Elisabeth Bik has single-handedly identified thousands of studies containing potentially doctored scientific images.

We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.

More significant than BlackRock executives’s pledges is the firm’s continued inclusion of fossil-fuel companies in its index funds.

Paintings of seven scientists at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, as the research facilities slowly reopen.

For five years, a team of researchers asked women about their experience after having—or not having—an abortion. What do their answers tell us?