Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans view scientists and their role in making public policy. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,593 U.S. adults from Oct. 21 to 27, 2024.

A lot of people write about what they see, but scientists have a uniquely effective way to observe the world and develop ...

Launching in 2025, the European Platform for Regulatory Science Research will bring together academia, regulators and other stakeholders to accelerate collaborative regulatory science research ...

The field of functional foods plays a critical role in advancing sustainable nutrition and human health. Phytochemicals - bioactive compounds found in ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

When scientists search for answers in laboratories, Prof Dorcas Kamuya asks a different set of questions: Are the people who participate in research protected? Who owns the data? Will the discoveries ...

Last month, we witnessed the viral sensation of several egregiously bad AI-generated figures published in a peer-reviewed article in Frontiers, a reputable scientific journal. Scientists on social ...

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. Deciphering the planet's history and processes could improve the ...