Maria Popova is the editor and founder of BrainPickings.org and a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. Deborah Blum is a science journalist & author, the publisher ...

Since November 2011, the Center for Open Science has been involved in an ambitious project: to repeat 100 psychology experiments and see whether the results are the same the second time round. The ...

In 2000, the UN set eight international development goals, known as the Millennium Development Goals, which were to be achieved by 2015. These goals included the eradication of extreme poverty, ...

In the new Pew Research Center survey, more-educated Americans generally score better overall in answering science-related questions than those who have a high school degree or less. And those with a ...

This year was undoubtedly the one in which CRISPR took over the minds and hearts of science lovers everywhere. On Thursday, Science Magazine announced the gene-editing technique won its Breakthrough ...

Those who try to measure public understanding about science and technology often link science and technology with the health and medical domain. Yet, the reality is that different people find those ...