A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Every survey finding published by Pew Research ...

ChatGPT is the world’s most popular AI chatbot — with nearly 800 million weekly active users — and all those users invariably cause problems on the platform ...

Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...

Refractive errors are common eye issues that can cause blurry or distorted vision. Treatment usually involves wearing glasses or contact lenses or getting procedures ...

Midway through Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night it looked like the Yankees were in control and in position to force a Game 6 back in Los Angeles. Then, disaster struck. The Yankees made ...

While the exact cause of this error is not known, it is worth checking if you have fulfilled all the system requirements for Java. If you are using a Windows system ...

A new ‘correction’ feature can identify, flag, and rewrite inaccurate AI outputs. A new ‘correction’ feature can identify, flag, and rewrite inaccurate AI outputs. is a news writer who covers the ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a technique called quantum error correction ...

Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,” he says. To prove his point, Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

While bias blind spots are familiar to most people, deaf spots and dumb spots are probably less so. Yet, they are equally powerful forces on our perception, communication, and decision-making. In 1969 ...

Seven studies from researchers at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have been retracted over the last two months after a scientist blogger alleged that images used in them had been ...