The new chatbot ChatGPT and other generative AI encourage cheating and offer up incorrect info, but they could also be used for good.

Tulsa massacre analysis and a genetically modified mosquito release are two important updates to 2021 stories.

Adopting behaviors of people who buck trends could boost public health and sustainability. In any large dataset involving the choices people make, a handful of people will succeed when most others like them fail. Zooming in on those outliers and mapping out how they made their choices could give those failing in similar circumstances a leg up.

These are some of the fun science stories from this year.

A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.

NASA's Lucy is the first spacecraft to head to the two giant clumps of space rocks that tag along in Jupiter's orbit.

By synthesizing norethindrone, one of the first active ingredients in birth control pills, Luis Miramontes helped usher in the sexual revolution.

Several state legislatures have taken steps to restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender adolescents. That goes against medical guidelines.

The debate over whether number lines are innate or learned obscures a more fundamental question: Why do we map numbers to space in the first place?

As temperatures rise, violence and aggression go up while focus and productivity decline. The well off can escape to cool spaces; the poor cannot.

A mathematical ritual known as null hypothesis significance testing has led researchers astray since the 1950s.

As children head back to school in the United States, here's a look at various testing strategies that could keep kids safe during in-person learning.

Existing scientific datasets fail to capture details on Asian Americans, making it hard to assess the group's overall well-being.

A century of science has pushed the boundaries of human reproduction even beyond writers' imaginations.

The pandemic forced science museums to reach out to their communities, and some built a wider following.

For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.

Particles associated with a blazar kick-start the field of neutrino astronomy.

Scientists have to publish a constant stream of new results to succeed. But in the process, their success may lead to science’s failure, two new studies warn.