New research suggests why misinformation can spread so rapidly—most shared stories circulate without verification of their underlying facts.

Don’t be fooled by the image of a mad scientist isolated in his basement laboratory. Science is a collaborative endeavor, and international teams have contributed to a huge rise in scientific output.

Providing a correction can affect how the audience feels about the journalists trying to set the record straight.

A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who were vaccinated.

People are concerned about the use of AI in newsrooms, but it depends on the type of news. Sports and entertainment don’t draw the same concern.

Efforts to fight "fake news" have given rise to an unintended paradox: the tools used to fight misinformation breed distrust in all news.

As people have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction, they are more likely to feel news fatigue and avoid news altogether.

As the popular streaming app Twitch moves into news coverage, researchers dig into how it's changing journalism and what makes it unique.

This bias in science journalism seems not to be due only to pragmatic concerns about time zones or the language spoken in the country where the scientist is based.

Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.