A lot of things that try to pass themselves off as science, like homeopathy, clearly aren't scientific. But it might surprise you to know that there's no simple checklist or flow chart that lets you ...

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Vannevar Bush died long before the launch of Forbes.com, but he built analog computers in the 1920s and described a mechanism that anticipated hypertext and the Internet in the 1940s. He also led the ...

Does everyone have the right to benefit from science? If so, what shape should benefits take? This article exposes the inequalities involved in bioprospecting through a relatively neglected human ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

Clara Herrera, a Tetrad student in the department of Biochemistry, works in the Engel Lab at UCSF in March 2020. The Tetrad Graduate Program is supported by the Discovery Fellows program. Photo by ...

(Inside Science) — Keep your eyes on the night skies this month: The Lyrid meteor shower is set to become active around April 15 and should peak on the evening of April 21 into the early morning hours ...