“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that ...

Science Magazine editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp recently declared that researchers need to get off the sidelines and into the gun-control debate. His call to action was wrong in every possible way.

People’s brains change when they become parents. She studies father’s brains in particular, to understand which changes underlie might better parenting. And she wants to study a variety of brains. “If ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

The ability to regulate our impulses and desires is indispensable to success in living and working with others. People with good control over their thought processes, emotions and behaviors not only ...

WASHINGTON — In this year’s midterms, the future of federal science policy is in Republicans’ crosshairs. Some of the most vocal critics of scientists and science agencies like the NIH and the CDC, ...

For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? By Bill Gourgey Published Apr 29, 2024 9:53 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

After reaching historic lows in the mid-2010s, gun violence rates in America have gone up in recent years, and they remain higher than in some other parts of the developed world. There are hundreds of ...

Governments and farmers worldwide spend millions every year trying to control the weather. New science suggests they might be on to something Puffy clouds contain a breathtaking amount of water. The ...

Darby Saxbe is worried her research funding might get canceled. People's brains change when they become parents. She studies fathers' brains, in particular, to understand which changes might underlie ...