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 ...

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 ...

Computational biologist Brandon Ogbunu explores and writes about the intersection of science, society, and culture. We spoke to this 2024 winner of an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in ...

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

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 ...

This year has been filled with fascinating science stories, and my colleagues and I on the Scientific American graphics team have been excited to help tell many of them through charts, illustrations, ...

Science News has been publishing award-winning science journalism for nearly a century. Our standards and processes are essential to what we do, and we believe they should be as transparent and ...

If you want to foster a culture of innovation, then you must encourage scientific creativity and idea exploration. The easiest way to do that for a business is to increase the team’s access to ...

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