After conventional wisdom seemed to make peanut allergies worse, a 15-year scientific journey led to “landmark” recommendations that now appear to be reducing their incidence.

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

Transparency in science is a delicate issue that directly influences public trust. A recent study explores this paradox where too much transparency can sometimes backfire. Byron Hyde, a researcher at ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human history, destroyed a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea. The story went ...