A new analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies—and ...

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

Computational biologist Brandon Ogbunu explores and writes about the intersection of science, society, and culture. We spoke ...

In 2014 astronomers announced a whopper of a discovery: primordial waves from the earliest moments of the big bang. The South Pole telescope results validated the long-standing but still-shaky ...

Your goofy but lovable cousin just told you that you should stop eating eggs because he read somewhere that a study showed ...

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Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person’s skull could reveal their mental strengths or weaknesses. And in the 20th ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Academia isn't strong on gender equality. Women are underrepresented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organizations. This is true for science academies ...

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Henry Kauffman lamented, “Why are we so poor at managing our key economic institutions while at the same time so accomplished in medicine, engineering and ...