The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, ...

Ultimately, the answer is that researchers don’t know yet what the deal with microplastics is. But in science, that’s OK.

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education. The call can hardly have ...

The erasing of people, science and history at our national parks is in full swing. NPCA is investigating and ready to hold ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize to climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan. He discovered a powerful force of global warming.

Worsham and Jena are physicians and researchers at Harvard Medical School and the authors of “Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients and Shape Our Health.” This ...

If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers. The government agency purged basic facts about ...

Or how about the fact that just 90 minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink your brain as much as one year of aging? Science isn’t just something we read about in textbooks - it’s happening in real ...

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 ...