Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently asserted a link exists between circumcision and a higher risk of autism, ...

Every organism's genome contains mutations that often have unknown biological effects. In partnership with Stanford ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

Significant resources go into software research, to improve collaboration or drive innovation. It is reasonable to critically ...

Researchers and physician scientists who accept private funding from profit-motivated actors must take affirmative steps to ...

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 ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present across all phases of analytical ...

Mr. Greenblatt is a professor of the humanities at Harvard. The Trump administration’s assault on America’s universities by cutting billions of dollars of federal support for scientific and medical ...

The use of Generative AI (GenAI) in scientific writing has grown rapidly, offering tools for manuscript drafting, literature summarization, and data analysis. However, these benefits are accompanied ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have unveiled an AI-powered system designed to expose predatory scientific journals—those that trick scientists into paying for publication without ...

There is currently a two-pronged attack on higher education, research, and scholarship in the United States. Activists inside universities have hijacked many administrative functions, and significant ...

Jessica M. Theodor receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. She is a former president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Kenshu Shimada is chair ...