It’s rare to find a news story that I want to share with my kids. But that’s the goal behind our digital team’s latest project — we want to create stories that you’ll want to read to your family at ...

President Obama recently returned from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and declared, "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to ...

A recent letter to the editor stated that “the science is settled; we’re cooking the planet.” True science is never “settled” and many scientific errors have been accepted by the “experts” through the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge ...

My prior post here identified a slew of ways in which psychological science has not lived up to its self-appointed claims as a "self-correcting" science. One could view that as me just being a ...

Last week, I sat for an exam that induced more perspiration than was necessary. My previous exam had been more than a year ago and although the one last week was more of an informal affair (there were ...

Recollections can be vivid, as when Francis Crick looked back to a moment in February 1953: “Jerry Donohue and Jim Watson were by the blackboard and I was by my desk, and we suddenly thought, ‘Well, ...

If you're annoyed that your pocket compass doesn't point exactly to true north, then head for Greenwich, England, where magnetic north and true north are synching over the next two weeks for the first ...

"Trust the science," say the media. Polls show that fewer Americans do. There's good reason for that. "They don't trust science because science is increasingly untrustworthy," says science writer ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...