In the current polarized environment, having friendly conversations with individuals who have different ideologies and viewpoints can be challenging. A growing number of Americans find discussions ...

Scientists once thought illness was caused by “miasmas,” foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Earth. Until the 1950s, they ...

As a scientist heavily engaged in science communication, I’ve seen it all. People have come to my public talks to argue with me that the Big Bang never happened. People have sent me handwritten ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...

A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” In other words, that which isn’t science is a ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...