An autonomous shotgun and a blood recirculation machine are both in development at the Air Force Research Laboratory. What the reporting supports — and what it does not.
Why some of the world's most useful devices come from tight budgets, and what the word 'frugal' actually carries into engineering.
The standardized testing debate is really a question about fairness: same exam for everyone, but is the same exam measuring the same things?
The 3rd France-Atlanta Science & Innovation Summit is small news with a readable signal: governments now court researchers the way brands court customers.
A nine-story lab building is a promise, not a result. Here is what the numbers in such announcements can and cannot tell you.
The Berlin-based network counts tens of millions of researcher accounts. Here is what actually happens on it, and what a careful reader should keep in mind.
A step-by-step walkthrough of abstracts, methods and limitations that turns intimidating journal articles into readable stories.
Behind most published science sits a grant that someone had to win. Here is how that contest actually works.
The committees that protect study volunteers also add months to timelines. The trade-off is deliberate, but the delays have grown.
A retraction is not a scandal headline. It is the paper trail of science checking its own work.
A p-value is the probability of data at least as extreme as the observed data if the null hypothesis were true — not the probability that the hypothesis is true, and not the size of the effect.
The SELECT trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2023, found semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by a fifth in adults with existing heart disease and overweight — a benefit independent of diabetes.
A 2026 study in Nature Medicine tracked a man with ALS using a brain-computer interface independently at home for nearly two years — a long-term, single-participant test of whether such systems can work outside the lab, not yet a device anyone else can buy.
Direct air capture fights thermodynamics before it fights economics: carbon dioxide is vanishingly dilute in air, and every ton collected must be paid for in energy, materials, and machines.
After decades of near-silence, new antibiotic classes are reaching patients — not by overpowering resistance, but by finding targets the older drugs never touched.
Peer review is a check by outside experts on a study's methods and reasoning before publication — a filter that improves papers but cannot verify data, replicate results, or catch deliberate fraud.
A 2025 analysis in PNAS finds reviewers often disagree with each other — and shows which specific fixes actually help.
A five-step checklist — source, study, design, size, conflicts — separates checkable findings from marketing wearing science's clothes.
Writing down the plan before the data arrive — outcomes, sample size, analysis — forecloses the quiet ways results get shaped afterward.
Fossils are almost never dated directly. Geologists date the rock around them instead, and the method depends entirely on what happens to be nearby.
Roughly ninety percent of the excess energy trapped by greenhouse gases ends up in the sea — and a global fleet of autonomous floats, plus satellite altimetry, measures it.
Since 2022, infrared surveys have turned up galaxies that appear surprisingly bright and mature within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang — and cosmologists are still arguing about why.
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 set the route from federal grant to patent to licensed startup — and federal records track the paperwork far better than the outcomes.
Federal statistics show scientists born abroad make up a disproportionate share of the U.S. research workforce, especially at the doctoral level.
Two-year institutions train a large share of the nation's science technicians and serve as the entry ramp for transfer students who later earn STEM degrees.
Test-score declines from pandemic school closures were among the largest ever measured, and the newest national data show recovery has stalled well short of the starting line.