Scientists' worst fears about Trump's cuts to research funding haven't come to pass, thanks to several legal challenges and ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

The energy state of an atom is denoted by its principal quantum number, designated n, which defines the probability of ...

A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...

AI accelerates analysis but lacks grounded, contextual insight; scientists must balance human creativity, ethics, oversight.

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. The Conversation asked researchers from a range of fields to share how the Trump administration's science ...

Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched their book club, Library Science, in 2024. See all of their 2026 selections, so far.

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...