Computational biologist Brandon Ogbunu explores and writes about the intersection of science, society, and culture. We spoke ...

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Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers — but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop.

Nicholas A. Coles is a research scientist at Stanford University, California, USA, and the director of the Psychological Science Accelerator. Are some of science’s biggest questions simply ...

As a neuroscience and bioscience researcher, I know that scientists are sometimes pigeonholed as white lab coats obsessed with charts and graphs. What that stereotype misses is their passion for ...

The United States has mobilized the full force of its clinical research enterprise to address the Covid-19 pandemic, allocating billions of dollars to support timely research. As of January 2021, for ...

The confidence people place in science is frequently based not on what it really is, but on what people would like it to be. When I asked students at the beginning of the year how they would define ...

Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

Instead of the Centers for Disease Control, imagine for a minute that Washington’s political pundits or even U.S. Senators and Representatives had been the ones in charge of setting our national ...

The content standards presented in this chapter outline what students should know, understand, and be able to do in natural science. The content standards are a complete set of outcomes for students; ...