As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

The Center for American Progress launches a new project, Science Progress, which includes a daily blog, heavy-hitting web-content, and coming soon, a print publication. The phrase “science progress” ...

That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the UK’s Royal Society. Massimi’s prize ...

The seven science advisers Barack Obama has chosen are surely the most distinguished group of scientists at the highest levels of government in decades. President-elect Barack Obama has sent a strong ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

If my count is correct, we are now beginning the fifth wave of explanations — at least since I’ve been covering the issue — for the apparent slowdown in technological progress (whether measured by the ...

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake our approach to science. This moment, in all its difficult uncertainty—COVID-19, economic turmoil and the crescendo of a long ...

A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates. You’re a typical American in 1870. You live on a ...

Three out of five scientists do not believe in God, but two out of five do, said John Donvan, opening a debate on the issue of science and religion Wednesday in New York. The discussion pitted the ...