A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about ...

The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a major report on Wednesday detailing the strongest evidence to date ...

Sidebar: Just Printing Results Doesn't Validate Them Sidebar: Discouraging Hypotheses Slows Progress What is a scientific fact? How are such facts established? Who are the judges, the referees, the ...

The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, painting by John Martin, 1852. In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human ...

Without a shared understanding of reality, we become ungovernable. And if we lose truth, we risk losing the republic.

Scientific information is complicated and full of caveats and clarifications. This, of course, absolutely ruins the shareability of even the most interesting facts and discoveries. So, what’s an ...

We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...