As America turns 250, a look at why curiosity, evidence and discovery have always been at the heart of the American ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

The exponential growth in scientific knowledge, and the myriad technological innovations it has spawned over the past two centuries, has given rise to the expectation that scientific progress will ...

Scientists and science teachers agree that science is a way of explaining the natural world. In common parlance, science is both a set of practices and the historical accumulation of knowledge. An ...

Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. His monthly essays, ...

Just as school kids get to test their hands at science in earnest, they may come face to face with entrenched teaching methods, coded language and a no-error culture ...