In this excerpt from KCUR's podcast "Seeking A Scientist," host Kate the Chemist set out to understand the science behind everyday stress and some helpful ways to cope. Are you feeling stressed? If ...

The word “science” can be intimidating to those who don’t understand what it entails. With the goals of demystifying the process of scientific investigation and getting students excited about science, ...

As this century draws to a close, the "future" business is flourishing in Western society. In France, some forty thousand seers, soothsayers, psychics, and other fortune tellers collect, annually, a ...

Jonathan Garlick receives funding and provides histology and scientific consulting services for Organogenesis Inc and HSRL Inc. These companies and my services are not related to the content of the ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

Public understanding and acceptance of empirical evidence and current scientific consensus is, arguably, among the most important topics today. This is especially so from the perspective of ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 306-332 (27 pages) This paper is an empirical critique of causal accounts of scientific explanation. Drawing on explanations which rely on ...

Jonathan Firth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged. Increasingly divisive ...

IN this book the President of Harvard University addresses himself to the problem of preparing suitable university courses (whether for graduates or undergraduates is not clear) for the purpose of ...