'Urgent national concern': Math is crucial in many fields yet more students are now functionally innumerate and many students do not go on to qualify for STEM courses ...

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have not yet been translated to practical recommendations for ...

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these ...

Progressive historians have been able to define the terms of debates of historical events as well to ask the biased and ...

... Read more ...

Whether we identify a problem that inspires us or are given a problem to solve, how creative our work on it will be depends on how we think about it. What aspects of the problem can we focus on? How ...

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.

Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly is a lucid dreamer. When she’s asleep and immersed in a dream, she knows that she is, in fact, dreaming. One of her favorite things to do during these sleep sojourns is ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

Improving public policies, creating the next generation of AI systems, reducing crime, making hospitals more efficient, addressing climate change, controlling pandemics, and reducing disruption in ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...