Science illiteracy and ignorance is rampant in society, so it's no wonder that it also plagues the sports that we play. Here are four prime examples in which logic, evidence, and reason goes unheeded ...

The first book I'd like to highlight for Book Week is Frederick Grinnell's Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic. This one came out last year, but I didn ...

From ancient aliens to UFO conspiracies, here's how to spot pseudoscience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient aliens.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The importance of science advice—broadly defined here as practices for mobilizing scientific knowledge in support of public decision-making—is now widely accepted (OECD, 2015). Over the last decade, ...

Sulfur in soils near the moon's poles might help astronauts live off the land one day, making these measurements an example of science that enables exploration. When you purchase through links on our ...

When I finally finished my Ph.D. program after 11 years of training for a research career in the biomedical sciences, I couldn’t help feeling that something was missing. I grew up convinced that ...

The vaccine debate is the latest example of how our coronavirus choices are inescapably political. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist One of many regrettable features of the Trump era is the way that ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation. The training to undertake this study was funded, in part, by the Institute of Pan African Thought and Conversation at the ...

A summer 2022 research cruise that detected a massive and highly toxic harmful algal bloom (HAB) in the Bering Strait has provided a dramatic example of science that utilized new technology to track a ...