If you do research and don’t publish it, is it science? That’s the question at the heart of an ongoing debate on X between entrepreneur Elon Musk and pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun. Over the ...

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science. In April 2020, 14 percent ...

Some of the best known species on Earth may not be what they seem. Credit...Steve Holroyd/Alamy Supported by By Carl Zimmer Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on ...