The Global Flourishing Study (GFS), the most comprehensive empirical investigation of human flourishing ever undertaken, has ...

A t first, it looked like a paradigm of science done right. A group of behavioral scientists had repeated the same experiments over and over in separate labs, following the same rigorous methods, and ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic journals after failing to meet quality criteria, according to a report by ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. For researchers studying aging — and thinking about how to extend our ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify the type of trees affected by Phanerochaete velutina. A species of wood-eating fungus didn't need a brain to pass a cognitive test with flying ...