ScienceGeist

Thomas Bayes had the right idea: Even scientific laws can benefit from an update.

Researchers who want professorships are sometimes driven to publish suspect findings.

With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.

A Nobel Prize winning physicist considers taking his research elsewhere, while applications from foreign researchers have plummeted.

Just a hunch? Hardly. Think germ theory, atomic theory and the theory of evolution.

Public rejection might just be part of the journey to knowledge's acceptance.

Use this tool to find out if robots are the future of your profession.

Google and its rivals are pushing into machine-learning diagnoses.

Behavioral and computer scientists are working together to combat the spread of bogus stories.

Nordic nations dominate the top 15, while South Korea reigns supreme and Russia is dealt a huge blow.

Google's biotech Calico will delve into the genetic database amassed by a unit of Ancestry.com to look for hereditary influences on longevity.

London Mayor is proposing a $16 billion fund to encourage growth of emerging health-care companies in the U.K. in an effort to catch up to biotechnology clusters in the US.

Countries from Finland to Portugal are shaping their higher education policies based on outside rankings, eager for the validation and attention the annual lists bestow, even while they are criticized as flawed or misleading.

The FDA is concerned about the public health consequences of inaccurate results from Google's personal genome service device.