2025-08-11

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research. [...]

2025-08-11

AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds

The latest example of bias permeating artificial intelligence comes from the medical field. A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large [...]

2025-08-11

Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

“Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make.” [...]

2025-08-11

RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC. [...]

2025-08-10

This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. [...]

2025-08-09

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fil [...]

2025-08-09

Watch NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts return to Earth

The astronauts part of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission are on their way back home. Their Dragon capsule called Endurance is scheduled to splash down at approximately 11:33 AM Eastern time off the coast [...]

2025-08-09

New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. [...]

2025-08-08

National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment

Move comes in response to government’s questioning of climate science. [...]