What We're Reading

The National Science Foundation has begun rolling out its biennial science and engineering indicators, which finds that the U.S. is no longer the uncontested leader in science globally thanks to China's big spending efforts.

Meaningful, scientifically valid insights don’t always have to come from large groups, which can miss important detail in studies of pain, nutrition, psychology and other highly personal health issues.

Researchers found a previously unknown alphavirus, one that infects only mosquitoes. They named it the Yada Yada virus, in part because it cannot attack humans and is therefore irrelevant to health.

The "triple slit" experiment, an update to the classic “double slit” demonstration of particle-wave duality, paves the way toward a novel strategy for quantum computing.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) also spots an alien world orbiting two stars.

As happens when the tech industry gets involved, hype surrounds the claims that artificial intelligence will help patients and even replace some doctors.

Could artificial intelligence improve the accuracy of screening for breast cancer? A comparison of the diagnostic performance of expert physicians and computers suggests so, but the clinical implications are as yet uncertain.

A lesson from Gutenberg's printing press: It’s easy to forget how unforeseeable the “unforeseeable” really is.

In her 'Roots of Unity' blog, mathematician Evelyn Lamb connects the Fibonacci numbers with Hilbert’s 10th problem.

Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology.