Communication about science is more than 'giving the facts'. In times of global challenges, rapid technological developments and information overload, effective science communication interventions ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations. It can help people think critically ...

The stereotype goes that scientific information is technical, dry, and boring. After all, everyone has dragged themselves through a too-dense manuscript or fought sleep during a slow presentation at ...

THERE is something arresting in the title which Dr. Wightman and Mr. Chesters, of the Edinburgh Academy, have given to this series of books. "An Introduction to Modern Science"might mean many things, ...

Editor’s note: The following is the introduction to a special e-publication called Determining the Age of the Earth (click the link to see a table of contents). Published earlier this year, the ...

Jonathan Losos receives funding from the National Science Foundation, Human Frontiers of Science and other funding organizations. I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered how crystals are made? Crystals come in all different shapes and sizes. The purest and cleanest crystals, however, are usually also the ones that grow to be the ...