The MSF Scientific Days bring together researchers, innovators, and advocates in humanitarian global health to discuss and challenge research from within the sector. We are now accepting abstract ...

TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission in what is thought to be an instance of ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

As the political relationship between the United States and China has frayed, the scientific ties between them have become thinner and more fragile. This is a dangerous trend. Working together ...

Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to ...

At the end of a year and the beginning of the next, it’s traditional to look back and muse over what happened and to look forward and hope for what might come. But for me, as an astronomer, it ...

That explanation echoes the “kick me” sign that scientific institutions have taped to their backsides over distrust at least since 1985, when the U.K.’s Royal Society warned of “[h ...

The exciting scientific developments present threats as well as opportunities. Dozens of leading researchers including two Nobel Prize winners have warned of the potentially catastrophic impact of ...

Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once ...

As the Event Horizon Telescope pursues ambitious upgrades, the project’s latest results reveal the magnetic fields around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole ...

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