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 ...

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 ...

Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change, political leaders are increasingly ...

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.

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

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 ...

For a good laugh, turn to page 42 of the report President Donald Trump’s Energy Department released in July. On this page, the huge gulf between climate modeling and observed warming comes into sharp ...

Project MKULTRA was a CIA experiment that sounds more like science fiction than actual historical fact. The goal was to test the limits of behavioral modification through drug use, brainwashing, and ...

Science serves as inspiration for the Saint Louis Science Center’s WONDER: A Quantum Blast, where curiosity and community converge for a cause, on October 4. While the evening aims to ignite the ...

SOLVING THINGS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. I THINK THAT IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THESE RESULTS AND BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN ALARMED, AND TO FEEL ANYTHING OTHER THAN URGENCY AND A NEED TO RESPOND. A ...

Perhaps the most inexplicable, absurd result of the COVID-19 pandemic is widespread public backlash against the notion of public health. More than 1.1 million U.S. deaths have been attributed to COVID ...