A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Science of Science Funding is an NBER initiative, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which seeks to improve understanding of effective methods of supporting scientific research. Its goal is ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

Earth in early times looked a lot different than it does now. It was a hot, high-pressure environment with no ozone layer and no oxygen in the atmosphere. Still, organisms that existed at these times ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

New studies and patents are "increasingly less likely to break with the past in ways that push science and technology in new directions," according to a 2023 paper that found a lack of disruptive ...

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