Science & Society

The public has a bit of a cultural schism about elections. Everyone says they want more diversity of candidates but an actual primary race is a sign of weakness. In the United States of America,…

Patient safety, whistleblowing and public inquiry have a long historical legacy - but with mixed results. Yet lessons from the past can inform current medical practice and help maintain a safe…

At the Biotech Literacy Project Boot Camp, held a week ago at the U.C. Davis World Food Center, I was on a journalism roundtable with Brooke Borel, Keith Kloor and Razib Khan, moderated by Professor…

A new global study finds that, despite lower yields, a target market for whom cost is not really an object makes organic agriculture more profitable for farmers than conventional agriculture. Though…

A growing number of colleges and universities are emerging as multinational organizations – creating start-up versions of themselves in foreign countries. Those vacationing in western France may…

Physics at the UAB have found the “formula” to construct a quantum thermometer with enough precision to detect minute fluctuations in temperature in regions as small as the inside of a cell. The…

Though 50 percent of science in America is done by the corporate world, journal articles are overwhelmingly written by academics. The reason is simple: In the private sector, it is a given that basic…

Teenage girls find female CEOs and military pilots to be better role models, but they like and feel more similar to women in careers like modeling and acting, say psychologists. For the study, 100…

Asking a few thousand Norwegians what they thought about climate change and not providing canned responses to choose from led to answers that were far more nuanced than the simplistic media…

A couple of weeks ago I was deeply disappointed to read that the USDA might get involved in an aspect of “non-GMO food labeling.”  The marketing of non-GMO food is an opportunistic, fear…