Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse course, further shaking up areas that ...

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

New research reveals how oxygen-fueled organisms from the deep sea may hold the key to understanding how complex life evolved ...

Five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members are among the 126 recipients of 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the best scientific ...

You can still work from home and earn a big salary. These six-figure jobs prove it, and many are available to those who have only a bachelor's degree or even less.

While AI is helping companies cover more ground faster, it is crucial that the models being used are fine-tuned to their specific risk exposures.

Since 10 January 2026, the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) has received reports of hundreds of "whumpfs" (i.e., sounds indicating a collapse in the snowpack) and of remote ...

There’s no doubt that AI can deliver a plethora of benefits, but if you quickly and broadly deploy any technology regardless of context, it’ll likely result in slop.

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models.

Written by: Stephen Janis, Taya Graham, Amanda Scherker ...