Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.

Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

Researchers fed an artificial-intelligence model called Foresight anonymized data from a huge swathe of patients in Britain’s ...

There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way.

Most people need around eight hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as ...

Survey of thousands of young people shows that those with mental health conditions spend more time on social-networking sites ...

Both projects were coordinated by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a network of 15 federal agencies that deal ...