The global community is facing a number of urgent challenges, such as emerging diseases, epidemics, antimicrobial resistance, ...

Political scientist Robert Putnam wants to fix the U.S.

“AI in distribution is like sex in high school: everyone’s talking about it, hardly anyone is doing it, and those who are… aren’t doing it well.” A room of distribution leaders laughed at a vendor’s ...

Amplified by social media, the overwhelmingly positive balance between population benefit and individual damage is forgotten. This has been the case for Covid vaccinations, where politics and health ...

So, "settled science" does not mean we know something with absolute certainty, but that the weight of evidence is heavily in ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Photographer Tim Flach’s new book is unusually personal: it includes images not only of his cat—a regal orange-and-white former barn kitten named Loki—but also of his brain, thanks to MRI scans ...

Over 40% of fatal crash victims had THC levels far above legal limits, showing cannabis use before driving remains widespread. The rate didn’t drop after legalization, suggesting policy changes ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

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Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...