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There is no shortage of problems facing humankind. What role science has in tackling them has long been debated.
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do - your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
Climatologist Katherine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science.
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s burgeoning—and notoriously combative—anti-vaccine movement.
Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has called for political leaders to speak more about science and innovation to connect people with the life-changing research that is funded by their taxes and has the potential to combat urgent global problems.
It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.
Critics say the organization is trying to intimidate young scientists.
New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
Just a hunch? Hardly. Think germ theory, atomic theory and the theory of evolution.
The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.
Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.
Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.
