Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends a warning about unusual activity on an account, or a weather app predicts ...

As COVID-19 claimed victims at the start of the pandemic, scientific models made headlines. We needed such models to make informed decisions. But how can we tell whether they can be trusted? The ...

“Would the world be a better, or even a different, place if the public understood more of the scope and the limitations, the findings and the methods of science?” This question was taken up in 1985 by ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

The scientists advocate shifting the current value system, which is biased against women and minorities, towards a more diverse and inclusive model of science Leila Nilipour Ana K. Spalding and 23 ...

The Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just published by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and ...

In the search for new drugs, artificial intelligence in the form of diffusion models is being used in drug design. What ...