Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public distrust of ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Two years ago, during ...

Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political leaders failed to support what scientists knew to be effective prevention measures. Over the course of the pandemic, people died from COVID-19 ...

How to support robust science reporting — plus, ISRO and NASA launch a satellite to map Earth, and glowing nanoparticles target cancer with precision. How to support robust science reporting — plus, ...

Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, ...

From the movies we watch and the music we listen to, to our friends and family, there is so much pressure from society to find “the one,” settle down, and start a family. But while this is the general ...

Cuts to science funding threaten life expectancy, our economic and job growth, and our work opportunities. Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which ...

Against all the evidence of horrific, devastating weather around us, climate change is still a “hoax.” A measles outbreak sparked by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists now extends beyond Texas to 34 ...

The cutting-edge research that led to innovations from the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine would not have been possible without funding from agencies ...

Information science is the study of the relationships between people, places and technology and how they are intertwined. Graduates in Information Science can pursue diverse careers such as data ...