SALT LAKE CITY –The head of NASA’s science directorate said the agency remains committed to using small satellites to carry out a variety of missions, although those plans face uncertain budgets. In a ...

The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled. One author of a recent Department of Energy report that ...

Use of evidence is what separates doctors from palm readers. Evidence helps prevent us from fooling ourselves. It tamps down our hubris. Yet some expert clinicians have rightly criticized the overuse ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

The growing uncertainty in US science policy alarms the federal government. With millions in investments, it wants to ...

Entity resolution (ER) aims to identify and match records referring to the same entity from multiple data sources, which is a ...

If you’ve ever taken even a cursory glance at a hurricane forecast, you’ve seen some version of the “cone of uncertainty.” It sounds like some other-dimensional realm of indecision, but it’s a ...