Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

The school science fair isn't just about vinegar and baking soda eruptions from papier-mâché volcanoes. One 14-year-old made a remarkable — and concerning — discovery. Forbes detailed how eighth ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

A scientist has revealed exactly what Project Hail Mary gets wrong about astrophysics – as well as the parts of the blockbuster that are bang on. Based on the bestselling sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...

“Anyone can be brave. You just need someone to be brave for.” That’s both a key line and the moral of the story in Project Hail Mary, the remarkable new film starring Ryan Gosling, James Ortiz, and ...