A new course offered this past spring, Sense & Sensibility & Science @UChicago: Scientific Thinking in a Democracy, highlights how scientific reasoning and tools can help both policy novices and ...

Primed with a few simple instructions, a group of 5th graders ventures into a rich ecosystem, alive with birds, invertebrates, and even a few mammals—like the rabbits they see, but can’t catch. This ...

A new benchmark study shows top AI research agents scoring below 40% on complex multi-paper reasoning tasks, compared to roughly 80% for human experts. The results, from the PaperArena evaluation, ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) has introduced a new benchmark, FrontierScience, which is used to measure expert-level scientific reasoning across the fields of biology, chemistry and physics. The new benchmark ...

Here is a "well, duh" moment: A study of college freshmen in the U.S. and China found that Chinese students know more science facts than their American counterparts -- but both groups are nearly ...

The vast amount of misinformation circulating in public health is largely due to not understanding evidence-based science.

A new benchmark study shows human scientists scoring roughly twice as high as leading AI agents on tasks requiring synthesis across multiple research papers. The PaperArena evaluation found top AI ...

Scientific evidence is key to public policy. But science does not offer a repository of neutral, ready-made evidence that may be translated into unambiguous policy prescriptions. Rather, scientific ...