Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work.

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The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the ...

The scientific establishments in the US and the UK connived together to prevent discussion about the origin of the Covid ...

In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals operate, researchers are taking on six ...

One of the world’s leading scientific journals recognizes physicist Igor Pikovski’s work on a method to detect gravitational ...

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In a new study, an international team of neuroscientists led by the University of Vienna has shown that experiencing nature can alleviate acute physical pain. Surprisingly, simply watching nature ...

Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

A team of Italian scientists have successfully managed to ‘freeze’ light while asserting that it can behave like a supersolid. This has resulted in a major breakthrough in field of quantum physics.