We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of ...

Have you ever fantasized about going back in time to relive a moment — or change it? Maybe you’re more interested in ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...

We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...

Second grade students at St. Jude School in Mountain Top recently engaged in a hands-on scientific investigation to determine which liquid would dissolve candy corn most rapidly. Through this ...

What is the “Scientific method”? Saturday’s March for Science calls for “robustly funded” science and “political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence based policies in the public interest.” But ...

A forgotten Guinness brewer's alternative approach could have prevented 100 years of mistakes in medicine, economics, and ...

No one scientific finding is final, yet students and scholars within the social sciences sometimes defer to scientific language to provide a sense of absolute certainty for their claims.

Scientific guidance isn’t carved in stone—it shifts as new evidence reshapes old assumptions. The recent reversal of ...