For years, scientific sleuths have been uncovering flaws and fraud in research publishing, from duplicated images and fabricated data to fake peer reviews. Their work has helped to bring about the ...

Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, can’t dig for ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

The co-founder of SCIMaP looks at the year of NIH cuts — and what they say about the future of American research.

Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom, in Baghdad emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa brothers, ...

Masks work. Especially respirator-style N95 masks. Amid an ongoing pandemic and outbreaks of influenza and RSV caused by airborne viruses, arguing over the virus-blocking power of masks remains one of ...

What does it mean to have fun at work? Is it an oxymoron? Or is it the key to a better future of work? Most leaders don’t have a good pulse on how to create fun work environments for their employees.

When leaders mirror Stalin by promoting false dogma, we must defend evidence-based reason. Lives depend on it.

There is no denying it — headlines are important. In fact, they may be the most important part of your content. A good headline will get people to read your article, while a bad one will cause them to ...

Social work is a field of study and profession aimed at addressing problems in society—from educational inequality to health disparities to child and family welfare. Whether they practice directly ...