Research

The University of California's boycott of academic-publishing giant Elsevier has open-access advocates pleased. Others have concerns about transparency.

A new study definitively disproves a decades-old theory that human "handling" of the animals caused their rapid disappearance from Serengeti National Park in 1991.

A new study finds those who deactivate Facebook are happier than those who don't. But there are reasons to believe this might not be true of the elderly.

Pacific Standard is looking for a research editor to lead our fact-checking operations and ensure the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of our content.

Particularly that of the country's most marginalized groups.

Nuclear researchers suspect that there are nearly 4,000 undiscovered nuclei that may help lead us to new machines and practices that benefit human life.

The reproducibility crisis is driven, in part, by invalid statistical analyses that are from data-driven hypotheses.

Several members of Congress are already eying legislation to require universities to report taxpayer-funded harassers to the government.

A lack of scientific literacy is correlated with undue fears around genetic modification, chemicals, and common food production techniques.

It will help scientists more accurately measure the presence of vocal species like bats, birds, bees, and tigers.

The Kepler telescope has run out of fuel and officially entered retirement. Luckily, there is a replacement on the way to continue our observation of the stars.

Through his attacks on those government expenditures he deems frivolous, the Arizona senator exposes the counterproductive nature of his own belt-tightening mission.

Nevertheless, scientists see some progress on the problem of reproducibility.

A systemic review presents damning evidence that journalists are overselling research.

This area of the Atlantic has been known as a nursery for the apex predator for decades, but no one has attempted to study these sharks' movements—until now.

New research predicts that audits would reduce the number of false positive results from 30.2 per 100 papers to 12.3 per 100.

Marine researchers are hoping to uncover what is drawing the sharks to an open stretch of ocean in the Pacific known as "White Shark Cafe."

Before self-driving cars begin appearing on our roadways, we need to ensure that they can cope with the potential hazards of driving alongside other vehicles.

Through the use of stem cell-based organoids researchers are making big strides in the study of neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

Empathy could play a larger role in dividing us than previously thought.

Researchers are having a tough time figuring out how safe autonomous vehicles are compared to their human-operated counterparts.

Researchers have discovered a new organism that has no known evolutionary relatives, causing them to reconsider how genes evolve.

Two biologists are working on a moonshot project to identify and map every cell inside of us.

Alkahest is performing patient trials to see if injecting plasma into Alzheimer's patients can mitigate the effects of the disease.