Where does scientific discovery happen, and why does it matter? A recent analysis by Amitabh Chandra, Harvard Kennedy School ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue ...

Journalists have uncovered a handful of preprint academic studies with hidden prompts instructing A.I. reviewers to give ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

The “open vein hypothesis” postulates that early thrombus clearance and restoration of venous blood flow may prevent postthrombotic syndrome after proximal deep vein thrombosis. Since its proposal ...

You often need a lot of patience to be a scientist, and that's certainly been the case for researchers who have now found ...

"The goal of the research symposium is to get more students more involved in research projects,” Karen Works, assistant teaching professor in computer science at FSU PC said in a press release ...

In this adapted excerpt from his new book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over Alzheimer’s ...

Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to ...

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to generate novel research hypotheses, starting in the field of biologically inspired materials.