Data Descriptors, Scientific Data's primary article type, describe datasets. These must be made available to editors and referees at the time of submission and be shared with the scientific community ...

This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago. Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...

Republican lawmakers decry Intel's testing of Chinese-linked tools after Reuters report Republican lawmakers accused Intel this week of threatening U.S. national security after Reuters revealed the ...

This study examines how multimodal large language models evaluate hate speech. Larger models can make context-sensitive decisions aligned with human judgement. However, pervasive demographic and ...