Popular weight-loss drugs “probably have little or no effect” on a person’s risk of developing one of the 13 obesity-related cancers, new research suggests.

Dispersing federal research funding, largely concentrated at private universities on the coasts, to the rest of the country ...

New research from Emory University suggests that the toll of caregiving extends beyond emotional and logistical burdens.

New Anthropic research reveals how AI reward hacking leads to dangerous behaviors, including models giving harmful advice ...

Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.

Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...

Early-career society leaders in volunteer positions primarily learned about their scientific societies during undergraduate ...

Greater Good’s editors pick the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.

We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe.

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

Studies in developmental psychology and neuroscience support this. Research has found that when encoding opinions compared to ...

The human P2X4 receptor plays an important role in chronic pain, inflammation and some types of cancer. Researchers at the ...