Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old ...

Drug development is expensive and failure is the norm. As a result, drug companies, investors and academic institutions are forced to make choices about how to spend money and time. Early on in ...

This new NOVA investigation looks at the evidence from every angle, marshaling expert opinions from physicists, engineers, cosmologists, and others who are bringing new technologies and heightened ...

The administration’s ongoing push to close labs and facilities at the Goddard Space Flight Center “risks permanently degrading Goddard’s scientific and technical capabilities with these moves,” ...

A National Institutes of Health investigation has found research misconduct by one of its top neuroscientists, the agency said Thursday. Dr. Eliezer Masliah previously spent decades as a researcher at ...

Scientists are generally pleased to learn that their papers are being discussed and cited. Discussion on one platform, however, is a cause of consternation: PubPeer. No scientist wants to learn that ...

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

Second grade students at St. Jude School in Mountain Top recently engaged in a hands-on scientific investigation to determine which liquid would dissolve candy corn most rapidly. Through this ...