Concerted, politicised assaults on scientific knowledge are intensifying. In the USA, the Trump administration is using the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education policy to ...

The current sociopolitical climate has made science a contested terrain. Polemical rhetoric and attempts to subordinate science to ideology are not only compromising research integrity, but also ...

When describing collective properties of macroscopic physical systems, microscopic fluctuations are typically averaged out, leaving a description of the typical behavior of the systems. While this ...

Behavioral sciences, encompassing environmental psychology, behavioral economics, social anthropology, and sociology, have ...

Expectations of continued success for American science were shaken this year when the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in funding and fired thousands of scientists.

How can time feel so obvious, so woven into the fabric of our experience and yet, for thousands of years, remain the bane of ...

America’s lucrative, long-running investment in basic science and research is under threat, and the consequences could be far ...

Science can be fun, fascinating, and eye-opening. These 10 classic experiments have stood the test of time, showing fundamental principles in action. From chemical reactions to physics demonstrations, ...

It began as a quiet laboratory experiment — and ended by rewriting history. The discovery of an explosive element so powerful it split the atom changed everything, ushering in an age of energy, fear, ...

On Saturday, group after group watched a life simulation unfold on a plastic tabletop world at south Tulsa’s Johnson Park, complete with housing divisions, a to-be strip mall, roadways, farmland and ...