A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

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Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...

President Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the concerns it raises, the ...