Broken U.S.-China Science Cooperation Needs Repair, Not Persecution
When Stanford University physicists Steve Kivelson and Peter Michelson received word that the Agreement between the United States and China…
Science News Briefs from around the World: October 2023
Mammals munching on dinosaurs in China, Greenland’s melted past, coral catastrophe in Florida, and much more in this month’s Quick…
Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science
A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness research community.…
Florida’s Attacks on Education Threaten Science
As students across the U.S. begin the school year, many will find their classrooms changed by politics. More than 19…
NASA releases UFO report, says more science needed to understand them
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA said Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites…
To Get Kids Interested in Science, We Have to Let Them Do Science
In 10 years the U.S. will turn on a brand-new particle accelerator that stands to unlock new secrets about the…
NASA Wants to Make UFO Studies a Real Science
Purported sightings of space aliens have long been relegated to pseudoscience, but NASA is ready to bring them into the…
Climate Science Is under Attack in Classrooms
CLIMATEWIRE | Political battles over climate change are increasingly being fought in the classroom. Conservative activists and politicians in states…
The Science of Shooting Stars
Who doesn’t love seeing a meteor? The experience of that sudden flash and streak of light turning your head and…
What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science
Mark Twain once wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” (He attributed the quip to…