Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

The energy state of an atom is denoted by its principal quantum number, designated n, which defines the probability of ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

These are missions only NASA can lead. Everything else should go to partners who can deliver faster and cheaper.

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...