Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

CO2 is used in greenhouses to boost plant growth. CO2 is also causing modern global warming by slowing the escape of heat ...

Uncertainty is a core tenet of science — researchers should be supported so they can communicate it with confidence to the ...

If the microraptor did, in fact, have flight-capable wings ... and other stories from the week in science, including an archeological find of medieval-era Silk Road cities in the Uzbek mountains ...

A data report from Michigan that listed one voter as having voted 29 times in the election shows a formatting error, according to Michigan officials and the Republican National Committee, who said ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Using a sophisticated new modeling approach, researchers have estimated carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters to 22 million U.S. lakes, rivers ... Laser Measurements to ...

The podcast ‘Does It Fly?’ asks whether the technology of Star Trek, Doctor Who and other popular sci-fi shows could really work.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

Claire Malone explains why this rapidly developing technology could also – despite some misgivings – be good news for communicating science Fact and fiction AI is increasingly being used to generate ...

Despite its diverse origin stories, a wildlife expert with Texas A&M AgriLife Research said there is a simple explanation to chupacabra sightings—one far more entrenched in science than the ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural ...

The emotions of the litigants may be driving the conflict more than the underlying facts. This is often true even in otherwise dry commercial disputes. Computers cannot be programmed to understand ...