Early on in his career, Uri Schattner, a geologist and geophysicist at the University of Haifa, had an epiphany. While scientists are equipped with how to do their science and publish the results of ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

A yearlong assault on federal science programs taught researchers they can’t always count on Washington to be a reliable partner. Scientists have come to a sobering conclusion about the U.S. research ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...