The Dublin based Livewire Publications has produced a new collection of essays titled Science & Capital - Radical Essays on Science & Technology, with the intention to; “bring together some of the ...

The administration and academic leadership of colleges and universities need to communicate far more effectively about science and its importance to the world outside academe, argues Jiri Hulcr. Many ...

A visit to one of the country's most distinctive medical museums reminds Elizabeth H. Simmons how the humanities can bolster science and why science is best learned in social context. “Would you like ...

An “escape from living a normal, mundane life,” is how one reader called her lab research as a grad student. Another mentioned the “moments of wonder that punctuated the darkness.” Yet another ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

When someone "hurts our feelings," do we feel physical pain? Is altruism the challenge to evolutionary tenets that many have claimed? How will plants adapt to global warming? Young scientists tackle ...

Smithtown students recently swept the top three spots in an essay contest coordinated by Brookhaven National Laboratory. The trio of teens from Smithtown High School East — Yongpeng Tang, Brian ...

Dr. Bik is a microbiologist who has worked at Stanford University and for the Dutch National Institute for Health. One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific ...