Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

In an era where scientific literacy is crucial for informed decision-making, the abilities to communicate and grasp complex ideas are more important than ever. Trust in science has been declining for ...

Rather than showing global warming is a "hoax," the paper reports that modern global warming is proceeding at an ...

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Graphs are everywhere. In discrete mathematics, they are structures that show the connections between points, much like a ...

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A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project, scientists ...

The study was widely interpreted—incorrectly, say the authors—as evidence that newborns should be matched to doctors of the ...

People in science are increasingly concerned about how wading into partisan politics may further erode trust in their field.

In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration used world-class instrumentation at the Facility ...