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When medicine doesn’t focus on prevention, anti-vaccination rhetoric flourishes. It’s time to address the system. Early last month, the scientist and medical researcher Dr. Peter Hotez shared a photo ...

The COVID-19 pandemic seems to take every public problem—vast social inequality, political polarization, the spread of conspiracy theories—and magnify it. Among these problems is the public’s growing ...

Science can easily become a true passion for young students. Use these tips to help them engage in this educational method of discovery. t Science is essentially a method of discovering the world, ...

Oreskes is the author of Why Trust Science? She is a Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University and also the co-author of Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for ...

If you aren’t a Christian, the Christmas story can seem as far-fetched as Santa Claus. Billions of people will celebrate Christmas this Thursday. It’s much more than a reason to decorate and spoil ...

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Editor's note: This story was originally published in April. It has been updated to include the latest on the Paris climate agreement. Thousands of scientists and their allies filled the streets of ...

If asked, most people will claim they know how a toilet works. But when asked to explain, most simply can’t. Yale psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil called this the “illusion of explanatory ...

There's a lot that we don't know about our universe, and there are many mysteries scientists can't explain. Scientists still aren't sure why people yawn, for example, or why one type of mushroom grows ...